November 20th, 2016

AUS: Exemption granted for NSW shark net trial

AUS: Exemption granted for NSW shark net trial

Media Release The Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP Minister for the Environment and Energy 16. November 2016 — — — — — — — — — — — — The Federal Government has granted the NSW Government an exemption under national environment law to conduct a 12 month shark net trial on the NSW north coast

AdAlta licenses Alzheimer’s disease-specific shark antibodies to Crossbeta Biosciences for therapeutic and diagnostic development

AdAlta licenses Alzheimer’s disease-specific shark antibodies to Crossbeta Biosciences for therapeutic and diagnostic development

Media Release Crossbeta Biosciences Melbourne, Australia, and Utrecht, the Netherlands, 8th November 2016: AdAlta Limited (ASX: 1AD), a biotechnology company specialising in the discovery and development of protein-based therapeutics, and Crossbeta Biosciences, a biotechnology company with unique technology for therapeutic and diagnostic use in neurodegenerative disorders, today announced their commercialisation agreement. Under the terms of

Parotid duct injury secondary to shark bite injury

Parotid duct injury secondary to shark bite injury

Published online on 11. October 2016 Parotid duct injury secondary to shark bite injury: Repair with a Crawford stent Mallory Highstein, Tristan Tham, Prabhjyot Singh, Peter Costantino ABSTRACT: Introduction Here we present a unique case of repair of a parotid injury caused by a shark attack. The repair technique is of interest due to the

First North Pacific records of the pointy nosed blue chimaera

First North Pacific records of the pointy nosed blue chimaera

Published on 11. October 2016 First North Pacific records of the pointy nosed blue chimaera, Hydrolagus cf. trolli (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae) Amber N. Reichert, Lonny Lundsten, David A. Ebert ABSTRACT: The occurrence of Hydrolagus cf. trolli is reported for the first time from the central and eastern North Pacific Ocean. This is a geographic range

Record of a two-headed embryo of Galeus atlanticus and review of the literature

Record of a two-headed embryo of Galeus atlanticus and review of the literature

Published online on 09. October 2016 Dicephalous v. diprosopus sharks: record of a two-headed embryo of Galeus atlanticus and review of the literature V. Sans-Coma, C. Rodríguez, M. A. López-Unzu, M. Lorenzale, B. Fernández, L. Vida, A. C. Durán ABSTRACT: As far as is known, this paper gives the first description of a two-headed shark

New record of the bull shark in an equatorial river system

New record of the bull shark in an equatorial river system

Published online on 06. October 2016 New record of Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) in an equatorial river system Leonardo Manir Feitosa, Ana Paula Barbosa Martins, Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes ABSTRACT: Bull sharks are a cosmopolitan shark species frequently found in shallow shelf ocean waters and, occasionally, in several tropical river systems around the world. Due

Taxonomic observations on stingrays of the genus Dasyatis in the Gulf of Gabès

Taxonomic observations on stingrays of the genus Dasyatis in the Gulf of Gabès

Published on 04. October 2016 Taxonomic observations on stingrays of the genus Dasyatis (Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae) in the Gulf of Gabès (Southeastern Mediterranean Sea) ABDESSELEM SAADAOUI, BECHIR SAIDI, AZIZA ELGLID, BERNARD SÉRET, MOHAMED N. BRADAI ABSTRACT: Four species of stingrays of the genus Dasyatis occur in the Gulf of Gabès, but the taxonomic status of one

A new elusive otodontid shark from the lower Miocene

A new elusive otodontid shark from the lower Miocene

Published online on 03 October 2016 A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the ‘megatoothed’ clade Kenshu Shimada, Richard E. Chandler, Otto Lok Tao Lam, Takeshi Tanaka & David J. Ward ABSTRACT: We describe a new large otodontid lamniform shark, Megalolamna paradoxodon

Complete mitochondrial genome of the porbeagle shark

Complete mitochondrial genome of the porbeagle shark

Published online on 03 October 2016 Complete mitochondrial genome of the porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus (Chondrichthyes, Lamnidae) Píndaro Díaz-Jaimes, Manuel Uribe-Alcocer, Douglas H. Adams, Jose Miguel Rangel-Morales & Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez ABSTRACT: We report for the first time, the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, from a specimen collected from offshore

Social Network Analysis Reveals Potential Fission-Fusion Behavior in a Shark

Social Network Analysis Reveals Potential Fission-Fusion Behavior in a Shark

Published online on 30 September 2016 Social Network Analysis Reveals Potential Fission-Fusion Behavior in a Shark Danielle E. Haulsee, Dewayne A. Fox, Matthew W. Breece, Lori M. Brown, Jeff Kneebone, Gregory B. Skomal, Matthew J. Oliver ABSTRACT: Complex social networks and behaviors are difficult to observe for free-living marine species, especially those that move great

Sharks caught in the KwaZulu-Natal bather protection programme: The tiger shark

Sharks caught in the KwaZulu-Natal bather protection programme: The tiger shark

Published online on 16. September 2016 Sharks caught in the KwaZulu-Natal bather protection programme, South Africa. 13. The tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvier ML Dicken, G Cliff, H Winker ABSTRACT: The current study provides long-term catch rate and biological data for tiger sharks Galeocerdo cuvier caught in the KwaZulu-Natal bather protection programme. Between 1978 and 2014,

Etmopterus alphus n. sp.: a new lanternshark from the south-western Indian Ocean.

Etmopterus alphus n. sp.: a new lanternshark from the south-western Indian Ocean.

Published on 16. September 2016 Etmopterus alphus n. sp.: a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the south-western Indian Ocean. Ebert, D.A., Straube, N., Leslie, R.W. & Weigmann, S. ABSTRACT: A new species of lanternshark, Etmopterus alphus (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae), is described from the south-western Indian Ocean. The new species resembles other members of the ‘Etmopterus lucifer’