#blackbelly lanternshark

[shark-of-tha-day]

shark of the day: blackbelly lanternshark, etmopterus lucifer

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the blackbelly lanternshark, also called the lucifer shark, is a small species of lanternshark named for its dark underside and the dark stripe behind its pelvic fins. they can grow to measure around 47 cm(~1.6 ft) long. blackbelly lanternsharks are found primarily in the eastern pacific around new zealand and japan in deep water along the upper continental shelves. they feed on small bony fish, squid, and shrimps. like all lanternsharks, their undersides are covered in light-producing photophores that are bioluminescent.

[fish-daily]

May I see a blackbelly lanternshark? (ps - TIL that sharks are fish!)

fish 203 - blackbelly lanternshark

[kirbyssharkfacts]

kirbyssharkfacts i am feeling down. will you give me a kirbys shark facts?

sorry to hear you're feeling down anon, but i hope this fact will help cheer you up! did you know some sharks can glow in the dark? bioluminescence has been documented in multiple shark species: the kitefin shark, blackbelly lanternshark, and southern lanternshark.

the exact purpose of this bioluminescence is unknown, but scientists have made several hypotheses. it’s possible that the sharks use this to communicate with each other, to disguise themselves when hunting prey or evading predators, or to illuminate the ocean floor when searching for food. a research paper on this subject was published in the frontiers in marine science journal in 2021, which you can find here if you're interested!

[sirus-themonster]

Here’s some shark breads tha no one asked for but I’m doing anyway!:

African angelshark

African dwarf sawshark

African lanternshark

African ribbontail catshark

African sawtail catshark

American pocket shark

Angelshark

Angular angelshark

Angular roughshark

Antilles catshark

Arabian carpetshark

Arabian catshark

Arabian smooth-hound

Argentine angelshark

Arrowhead dogfish

Atlantic angel shark

Atlantic sawtail catshark

Atlantic sixgill shark

Atlantic sharpnose shark

Atlantic weasel shark

Australian angelshark

Australian blackspotted catshark

Australian blacktip shark

Australian grey smooth-hound

Australian marbled catshark

Australian reticulate swellshark

Australian sawtail catshark

Australian sharpnose shark

Australian spotted catshark

Australian swellshark

Australian weasel shark

Azores dogfish

Bahamas sawshark

Bali catshark

Balloon shark

Banded houndshark

Banded sand catshark

Banded wobbegong

Bartail spurdog

Barbelthroat carpetshark

Barbeled houndshark

Bareskin dogfish

Basking shark

Beige catshark

Bigeye houndshark

Bigeye sand tiger

Bigeye thresher shark

Bighead catshark

Bighead spurdog

Bignose shark

Bigeyed sixgill shark

Birdbeak dogfish

Blackbelly lanternshark

Black dogfish

Blackfin gulper shark

Blackgill catshark

Blackmouth catshark

Blackmouth lanternshark

Blacknose shark

Black roughscale catshark

Blackspot shark

Blackspotted catshark

Blackspotted smooth-hound

Blacktail reef shark

Blacktailed spurdog

Blacktip reef shark

Blacktip sawtail catshark

Blacktip shark

Blacktip tope

Black wonder catshark

Blind shark

Blotched catshark, two different species

Blotchy swellshark

Blue-eye lanternshark

Bluegrey carpetshark

Blue shark

Bluntnose sixgill shark

Blunt-nose spiny dogfish

Blurred lanternshark

Boa catshark

Bonnethead shark

Borneo broadfin shark

Borneo shark

Bramble shark

Brazilian sharpnose shark

Bristled lanternshark

Bristly catshark

Broadbanded lanternshark

Broadfin sawtail catshark

Broadfin shark

Broadgill catshark

Broadhead catshark

Broadmouth catshark

Broadnose catshark

Broadnose sevengill shark

Broad-snout lanternshark

Brownbanded bamboo shark

Brown catshark

Brown lanternshark

Brown shyshark

Brown smoothhound

Brownspotted catshark

Bull shark

Burmese bamboo shark

Campeche catshark

Caribbean lanternshark

Caribbean reef shark

Caribbean roughshark

Caribbean sharpnose shark

Caribbean smooth-hound

Carolina hammerhead

Cenderawasih epaulette shark

Chain catshark

Chilean angelshark

Chilean lanternshark

Clouded angelshark

Cloudy catshark

Coates' shark

Cobbler wobbegong

Collared carpetshark

Combtooth dogfish

Combtooth lanternshark

Common smooth-hound

Comoro catshark

Cook's swellshark

Cookiecutter shark

Copper shark

Coral catshark

Creek whaler

Crested bullhead shark

Crocodile shark

Crying catshark

Cuban dogfish

Cuban ribbontail catshark

Cylindrical lanternshark

Cyrano spurdog

Daggernose shark

Dark freckled catshark

Dark shyshark

Deepwater catshark

Deepwater sicklefin houndshark

Dense-scale lantern shark

Disparate angelshark

Draughtsboard shark

Dumb gulper shark

Dusky catshark

Dusky shark

Dusky smooth-hound

Dusky snout catshark

Dwarf catshark

Dwarf false catshark

Dwarf gulper shark

Dwarf lanternshark

Dwarf sawtail catshark

Dwarf smooth-hound

Dwarf spotted wobbegong

Eastern angelshark

Eastern banded catshark

Eastern highfin spurdog

Eastern longnose spurdog

Eastern spotted gummy shark

Edmund's spurdog

Elongate carpetshark

Epaulette shark

False catshark

False lanternshark

False smalltail shark

Fat catshark

Fatspine spurdog

Fedorov's catshark

Filetail catshark

Finetooth shark

Flaccid catshark

Flagtail swellshark

Flapnose houndshark

Flathead catshark

Floral banded wobbegong

Formosa swellshark

Freckled catshark

Frilled shark

Fringefin lanternshark

Frog shark

Galapagos bullhead shark

Galapagos shark

Galbraith's catshark

Ganges shark

Garrick's catshark

Gecko catshark

Genie's dogfish

Ghost catshark

Ginger carpetshark

Goblin shark

Graceful catshark

Graceful shark

Granular dogfish

Great hammerhead

Great lanternshark

Great white shark

Green-eye spurdog

Green lanternshark

Greenland shark

Grey bamboo shark

Grey sharpnose shark

Grey smooth-hound

Grinning catshark

Guadalupe lanternshark

Gulf catshark

Gulf of Mexico filetail catshark

Gulf smooth-hound

Gulper shark

Gummy shark

Halmahera epaulette shark

Hardnose shark

Harlequin catshark

Hasselt's bamboo shark

Hawaiian lanternshark

Hidden angelshark

Highfin dogfish

Hoary catshark

Honeycomb Izak

Hooded carpetshark

Hooktooth dogfish

Hooktooth shark

Horn shark

Human's whaler shark

Humpback catshark

Humpback smooth-hound

Iceland catshark

Indian swellshark

Indonesian angelshark

Indonesian filetail catshark

Indonesian greeneye spurdog

Indonesian houndshark

Indonesian shortsnout spurdog

Indonesian speckled carpetshark

Indonesian speckled catshark

Indonesian whaler shark

Indonesian wobbegong

Izak catshark

Izu catshark

Jaguar catshark

Japanese angelshark

Japanese bullhead shark

Japanese catshark

Japanese roughshark

Japanese sawshark

Japanese shortnose spurdog

Japanese spurdog

Japanese topeshark

Japanese velvet dogfish

Japanese wobbegong

Kermadec smooth hound

Kermadec spiny dogfish

Kitefin shark

Knifetooth dogfish

Lana's sawshark

Largenose catshark

Largespine velvet dogfish

Largetooth cookiecutter shark

Leafscale gulper shark

Lemon shark

Leopard catshark

Leopard epaulette shark

Leopard shark

Lined catshark

Lined lanternshark

Lined lanternshark

Little gulper shark

Little sleeper shark

Lizard catshark

Lollipop catshark

Lombok highfin spurdog

Longfin catshark

Longfin mako

Longfin sawtail catshark

Longhead catshark

Longnose catshark

Longnose houndshark

Longnose pygmy shark

Longnose sawshark

Longnose sawtail catshark

Longnose spurdog

Longnose velvet dogfish

Longsnout dogfish

Longnose sleeper shark

Lowfin gulper shark

Magnificent catshark

Mandarin dogfish

Mangalore houndshark

McMillan's catshark

Megamouth shark

Mexican angelshark

Mexican hornshark

Milk-eye catshark

Milk shark

Mini gulper shark

Moller's lanternshark

Mosaic gulper shark

Mouse catshark

Mud catshark

Mukah river shark

Narrowbar swellshark

Narrowfin smooth-hound

Narrowhead catshark

Narrowmouthed catshark

Narrownose smooth-hound

Narrowtail catshark

Natal shyshark

Necklace carpetshark

Nervous shark

Network wobbegong

New Caledonia catshark

New Zealand catshark

New Zealand lanternshark

Night shark

Ninja lanternshark

Northern river shark

Northern sawtail catshark

Northern spiny dogfish

Northern wobbegong

Nurse shark

Nursehound

Nurseblood

Oakley's catshark

Oceanic whitetip shark

Ocellate topeshark

Ocellated angelshark

Oman bullhead shark

Onefin catshark

Orange spotted catshark

Ornate angelshark

Ornate dogfish

Ornate wobbegong

Pacific angelshark

Pacific nurse shark

Pacific sharpnose shark

Pacific sleeper shark

Pacific smalltail shark

Pacific spadenose shark

Pacific spiny dogfish

Painted swellshark

Pale catshark

Pale spotted catshark

Panama ghost catshark

Papua shorttail lanternshark

Papuan epaulette shark

Pelagic thresher shark

Peppered catshark

Phallic catshark

Philippines angelshark

Philippines ribbontail catshark

Philippines swellshark

Pigeye shark

Pink lanternshark

Pinocchio catshark

Plunket's shark

Pocket shark

Pondicherry shark

Porbeagle shark

Port Jackson shark

Portuguese dogfish

Prickly dogfish

Prickly shark

Puffadder shyshark

Pygmy lanternshark

Pygmy ribbontail catshark

Pygmy shark

Quagga catshark

Rasptooth dogfish

Redspotted catshark

Reticulated swellshark

Roughback catshark

Rough longnose dogfish

Roughskin catshark

Roughskin dogfish

Roughskin spurdog

Roughtail catshark

Rusty carpetshark

Rusty catshark

Saddle carpetshark

Saddled swellshark

Sailback houndshark

Sailfin roughshark

Salamander shark

Saldanha catshark

Salmon shark

Sandtiger shark

Sandbar shark

Sarawak pygmy swellshark

Sarawak smooth-hound

Sawback angelshark

Scalloped bonnethead

Scalloped hammerhead

Scoophead

Sculpted lanternshark

Seychelles carpetshark

Seychelles gulper shark

Seychelles spurdog

Sharpfin houndshark

Sharpnose sevengill shark

Sharptooth houndshark

Sharptooth smooth-hound

Sherwood dogfish

Shortbelly catshark

Shortfin mako

Shortfin smooth lanternshark

Shortnose demon catshark

Shortnose sawshark

Shortnose spurdog

Shortspine spurdog

Shorttail lanternshark

Shorttail nurse shark

Sicklefin houndshark

Sicklefin lemon shark

Sicklefin smooth-hound

Sicklefin weasel shark

Silky shark

Silvertip shark

Sixgill sawshark

Slender bamboo shark

Slender catshark

Slender gulper shark

Slender sawtail catshark

Slender smooth-hound

Slender weasel shark

Sliteye shark

Smallbelly catshark

Smalldorsal catshark

Smalleye catshark

Smalleye hammerhead

Smalleye lantern shark

Smalleye pygmy shark

Smalleye smooth-hound

Smallfin catshark

Smallfin gulper shark

Small-spotted catshark

Smalltail shark

Smalltooth sand tiger

Smoothback angelshark

Smooth hammerhead

Smooth lanternshark

Smoothtooth blacktip shark

Snaggletooth shark

Sombre catshark

South China catshark

Southern African frilled shark

Southern dogfish

Southern lanternshark

Southern lollipop catshark

Southern mandarin dogfish

Southern sawtail catshark

Southern sleeper shark

Spadenose shark

Sparsetooth dogfish

Spatulasnout catshark

Speartooth shark

Speckled carpetshark

Speckled catshark

Speckled smooth-hound

Speckled swellshark

Spined pygmy shark

Spinner shark

Spiny dogfish

Splendid lanternshark

Spongehead catshark

Spotless catshark

Spotless smooth-hound

Spottail shark

Spotted-belly catshark

Spotted estuary smooth-hound

Spotted houndshark

Spotted wobbegong

Springer's sawtail catshark

Starspotted smooth-hound

Starry catshark

Starry smooth-hound

Steven's swellshark

Straight-tooth weasel shark

Striped catshark

Striped smooth-hound

Sulu gollumshark

Swellshark

Taillight shark

Tailspot lanternshark

Taiwan angelshark

Taiwan saddled carpetshark

Taiwan spurdog

Tasselled wobbegong

Tawny nurse shark

Thorny lanternshark

Thresher shark

Tiger catshark

Tiger shark

Tope shark

Triton epaulette shark

Tropical sawshark

Variegated catshark

Velvet belly lanternshark

Velvet catshark

Velvet dogfish

Viper dogfish

West African catshark

West Indian lanternshark

Western angelshark

Western gulper shark

Western highfin spurdog

Western longnose spurdog

Western spotted catshark

Western spotted gummy shark

Western wobbegong

Whale shark

Whiskery shark

White-bodied catshark

Whitecheek shark

White-clasper catshark

Whitefin dogfish

White-fin smooth-hound

Whitefin swellshark

Whitefin topeshark

White ghost catshark

White-margin fin smooth-hound

Whitemarked gollumshark

Whitenose shark

Whitesaddled catshark

Whitespotted bamboo shark

Whitespotted bullhead shark

Whitespotted catshark

Whitespotted smooth-hound

Whitetail dogfish

White-tip catshark

Whitetip reef shark

Whitetip weasel shark

Winghead shark

Yellowspotted catshark

Zebra bullhead shark

Zebra shark

[nicetoseayou]

there’s three known bioluminescent sharks. the kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark, and the southern lanternshark. the kitefin shark is the largest known bioluminescent vertebrate.

kitefin shark ^

blackbelly lanternshark ^

southern lanternshark ^

[focusonthegoodnews]

We Just Found The Largest Luminous Glowing Shark Species in The World

We Just Found The Largest Luminous Glowing Shark Species in The World

Good News Notes: “Three species of shark that inhabit the twilit depths of the ocean just turned out to have been bioluminescent this whole time. The kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark, and the southern lanternshark have all been discovered to have softly glowing blue patterns on their skin, a first for sharks found in New Zealand waters. Of those three, the kitefin shark, which grows up…

[suckishima]

i love this extra so much

[drsunshineistrans]

bioluminescent sharks exist isnt that neat?

[obaewankenope]

Glow in the dark shark? 🥺

Yes, glow in the dark shark.

The year is 2020. You're on a research vessel off the coast of New Zealand near Chatham Rise to study the deep, dark sea and the sharks within it. By the end of the study, you have discovered another three sharks that are bioluminescent. That glow in the dark. They are the:

Kitefin Shark

Blackbelly Lanternshark

Souther Lanternshark

These three sharks join the other sharks that glow or produce their own light. With over 520 species of shark and around 57 of them capable of glowing/bioluminescence, approximately 10% of all known shark species glow in the dark.

Bioluminescence pattern of the Kitefin Shark

[image source: Mongabay news]

The next time you go in the ocean and think to dive deep, remember that the light you might see in the dark might not be the deep-sea Anglerfish but rather the Kitefin coming to say hello.

[navy--gravy]

Mallefet et al., Front. Mar. Sci., 2021

Glow-in-the-dark sharks

Scientists have found three species of sharks living in the deep waters off the east coast of New Zealand that glow in the dark. Many marine animals can produce light through a process known as bioluminesce, but this is the first time that the phenomenon has been observed in the kitefin shark ( Dalatias licha), the blackbelly lanternshark ( Etmopterus lucifer) and the southern lanternshark ( Etmopterus granulosus). At a length of up to 180 centimetres, the kitefin the biggest luminous vertebrate known. The glowing underbellies could camouflage the sharks from predators from below, disguise them when approaching prey or help to illuminate the dark ocean floor. - Nature

[sourshark5]

blackbelly lanternshark

bioluminescent

ill call her glow-bro

[campplay]

The World's First Giant-Glowing Bioluminescent Shark Found

The World’s First Giant-Glowing Bioluminescent Shark Found

The World’s First Giant-Glowing Bioluminescent Shark Found There are a number of deep sea creatures that glow-in-the-dark, but a team studying marine life have the first ‘giant luminous shark.’ Researchers spotted the kitefun shark off the eastern coast of New Zealand during a survey last year, along with two others – a blackbelly lanternshark and southern lanternshark, which also posses…

[sciencespies]

We just found the largest luminous glowing shark species in the world

https://sciencespies.com/nature/we-just-found-the-largest-luminous-glowing-shark-species-in-the-world/

We just found the largest luminous glowing shark species in the world

Three species of shark that inhabit the twilit depths of the ocean just turned out to have been bioluminescent this whole time.

The kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark, and the southern lanternshark have all been discovered to have softly glowing blue patterns on their skin, a first for sharks found in New Zealand waters.

Of those three, the kitefin shark, which grows up to 180 centimetres (5 feet 11 inches) long, is now the largest known bioluminescent shark in the world.

Bioluminescence is not an uncommon trait for living things to evolve. Even humans glow (although too faintly to actually see). It seems to be most useful for life forms that live in the dark – night-glowing fungus, insects in dark caves… and in the depths of the ocean, so deep that the rays of the Sun can’t penetrate the water.

In the mesopelagic, also known as the twilight zone, between 200 and 1,000 metres (650 and 3,300 feet) below the surface, bioluminescence is practically a way of life. It has been estimated that over 90 percent of all mesopelagic animals have some form of bioluminescence that they use in different ways.

In sharks, however, bioluminescence is not well-documented, nor extensively studied. Marine biologists Jérôme Mallefet and Laurent Duchatelet of the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium have been leading an effort to redress this.

The kitefin shark glow pattern. (Mallefet et al., Front. Mar. Sci., 2021)

“Bioluminescence has often been seen as a spectacular yet uncommon event at sea,” the researchers wrote in their paper, “but considering the vastness of the deep sea and the occurrence of luminous organisms in this zone, it is now more and more obvious that producing light at depth must play an important role structuring the biggest ecosystem on our planet.”

Together with Darren Stevens of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, they undertook a study of the mesopelagic sharks found in local waters.

Thanks to their work, we now know that the kitefin shark (Dalatias licha) – which has a global distribution – is indeed bioluminescent, something that scientists had suspected since the 1980s, although no clear evidence had been found.

The other two sharks, the blackbelly lanternshark (Etmopterus lucifer) and the southern lanternshark (E. granulosus), are much smaller than the kitefin, up to 47 and 60 centimetres respectively, but they’re also the most common shark by-catch species found in New Zealand deep-sea trawlers.

The scientists caught their specimens on a NIWA survey trawl of Chatham Rise off the east coast of New Zealand in January 2020. Of the hundreds of sharks caught, 13 kitefin sharks, 7 blackbellies, and 4 southern lanternsharks were used for the bioluminescence study.

In the skin of all three species, the scientists found photophores, a light-emitting organ found in bioluminescent animals.

Curiously, in sharks the light emission is controlled hormonally (the only known animal species for which this is the case). The researchers found that with their three shark species, melatonin triggers the glow, alpha-melanocyte stimulates it, and adrenocorticotropic hormones shut it down.

As for why the sharks glow, that is not quite so easy to ascertain. Mesopelagic animals can glow for many reasons: attracting a mate, luring prey, schooling, or camouflage.

The scientists think for their sharks it might be the latter reason. The glow is concentrated around the bellies and undersides, and in the mesopelagic, this could help make these fish virtually invisible from certain angles.

The blackbelly lanternshark. (Mallefet et al., Front. Mar. Sci., 2021)

It’s not quite deep enough where the sharks hang out for no light at all to penetrate; to prey animals swimming underneath the sharks, they could appear silhouetted against the sky. But when their bellies light up blue, they would be much harder to see against the blue sky – a type of camouflage known as counterillumination.

That said, the glow on the dorsal fins of the kitefin shark is a little more difficult to puzzle out; more research into their behaviour is needed.

Understanding these creatures, the researchers said, could provide some insight not just into the individual species, but how the deep-sea ecosystem works as a whole.

“This first experimental study of three luminous shark species from New Zealand provides an insight into the diversity of shark bioluminescence and highlights the need for more research to help understand these unusual deep-sea inhabitants: the glowing sharks,” they wrote in their paper.

The research has been published in Frontiers in Marine Science.

#Nature

[theirtheretheyre]

larger drawings of hiya kitty, tika-chu, and a blackbelly lanternshark are at the end of the chapter with a fun fact about each, too! what the fuck is wrong with them. not the blackbelly lanternshark, shes beautiful. hiya kitty and tika-chu

this is so fucking funny

[suckishima]

honestly, same yachi. i also get distracted by the blackbelly lanternshark