Caribbean Sea
Marine biota in the region have representatives of both the Indian and Pacific oceans which were caught in the Caribbean before the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama four million years ago. In the Caribbean Sea there are around 1,000 documented species of fish, including sharks (bull shark, tiger shark, silky shark and Caribbean reef shark), flying fish, giant oceanic manta ray, angel fish, spotfin butterflyfish, parrotfish, Atlantic Goliath grouper, tarpon and moray eels. Throughout the Caribbean there is industrial catching of lobster and sardines (off the coast of Yucatán Peninsula).
Dwarf lanternshark
American ichthyologists Stewart Springer and George H. Burgess described the dwarf lanternshark from specimens collected via trawling by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research ship "Oregon" in 1964. They dubbed the new species in honor of noted shark biologist Perry W. Gilbert, and published their findings in a 1985 "Copeia" paper. The type specimen is a long female caught in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Colombia. This species is grouped with the velvet belly lantern shark ("E. spinax"), Caribbean lanternshark ("E. hillianus"), fringefin lanternshark ("E. schultzi"), brown lanternshark ("E. unicolor"), broadbanded lanternshark ("E. gracilispinis"), and combtooth lanternshark ("E. decacuspidatus") in having irregularly arranged, needle-shaped dermal denticles.