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Researcher names newly discovered shark species for daughter

February 27, 2019 11:00 pm • Last Updated: February 28, 2019 8:12 am

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A shark researcher at the University of Rhode Island has named a newly-discovered species of shark after his 17-year-old daughter.

Bradley Wetherbee, of Lincoln, says he named the Laila's lantern shark after his daughter, Laila. The Providence Journal reports the shark specimens were first offered to Wetherbee for research after they were inadvertently captured off the Hawaiian Islands nearly 30 years ago.

Wetherbee was able to ship some specimens to a California lab, which determined the sharks did not belong to any previously discovered species of lantern shark.

Wetherbee says the Laila's lantern shark is his new favorite species of shark.

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