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French Polynesia: Child bitten by shark in Bora Bora
Published on 18 Mar, 2015 at 13:35 in Attacks & Incidents, Front Page, Shark News | Viewed times | 1 Comment
Helmut Nickel (mail), Shark Year Magazine, 18. March 2015 On Monday, March 16, late in the morning around 10 a.m., a 9-year-old child was bitten on the hand by a shark in Bora Bora which belongs the Society Islands of French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean. The boy was accompanied by his mother when the
Strongly directional and differential swimming behavior of an adult female white shark from Guadalupe Island
Published in March 2015 Strongly directional and differential swimming behavior of an adult female white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) from Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Ramón Bonfil, Shannon O΄Brien ABSTRACT: We report on an adult female white shark tracked for 288 days and 7,100 km in the NE Pacific Ocean. The shark, tagged with a real-time
Partial albinism in an embryo of the blacktip shark from the eastern Pacific
Published in March 2015 Partial albinism in an embryo of the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus (Carcharhinidae: Chondrichthyes) from the eastern Pacific Francisco Sancho-Vazquez, Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Oscar Uriel Mendoza-Vargas ABSTRACT: A record of a male blacktip shark embryo, Carcharhinus limbatus, showing partial albinism is reported. The specimen was caught off the Mexican coastal waters
The effect of biogeographic and phylogeographic barriers on gene flow in the brown smoothhound shark
Published online on 17. March 2015 The effect of biogeographic and phylogeographic barriers on gene flow in the brown smoothhound shark, Mustelus henlei, in the northeastern Pacific Chris L. Chabot, Mario Espinoza, Ismael Mascareñas-Osorio, Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares ABSTRACT: We assessed the effects of the prominent biogeographic (Point Conception and the Peninsula of Baja California) and phylogeographic