Etmopterus cf. molleri

Straube, Nicolas, White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Rochel, Elisabeth, Corrigan, Shannon, Li, Chenhong & Naylor, Gavin J. P., 2013, A DNA sequence-based identification checklist for Taiwanese chondrichthyans, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 256-278 : 261

Etmopterus cf. molleri

The 12 Taiwanese samples of E. cf. molleri included in this analysis formed a single cluster together with a Taiwan sample of E. molleri (GN997), which was sister to an E. brachyurus clade ( Figure 2, Supplementary Material 1). Naylor et al. (2012a) commented that E. molleri samples from Taiwan need to be compared with the recently described E. burgessi to ensure they are not conspecific. This analysis includes the first sequenced samples of E. burgessi and shows they are quite distinct from this species. Samples of E. molleri from the type location of Australia are required to ascertain whether the Taiwan species represents a distinct species or whether they are conspecific.