Summary: Phantom hunter of the fjords: Camouflage by counterillumination in a shark
(Etmopterus spinax)
Julien M. Claes a,
, Dag L. Aksnes b
, Jérôme Mallefet a
a
Laboratory of Marine Biology, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, 3 Place Croix du Sud, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
b
Department of Biology, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway
a b s t r a c ta r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 9 February 2010
Received in revised form 16 March 2010
Accepted 18 March 2010
Keywords:
Bioluminescence
Deep-sea
Etmopterus spinax
Lantern shark
Midwater fish

Source: Aksnes, Dag L. - Institutt for biologi, Universitetet i Bergen

Collections: Environmental Sciences and Ecology; Biology and Medicine