Large thresher shark landed in Naples, Italy

Review of the bamboo shark genus Hemiscyllium

Published on 02. November 2016 Review of the bamboo shark genus Hemiscyllium (Orectolobiformes: Hemiscyllidae) Allen, Gerald R.; Erdmann, Mark V.; White, William T.; Fahmi; Dudgeon, Christine L. ABSTRACT: The bamboo sharks, genus Hemiscyllium, comprises a group of nine species mainly restricted to New Guinea and northern Australia, including islands, reefs, and shoals separated from mainland

Bycatch of chondrichthyans in a coastal trawl fishery on Chubut province coast

Published online on 28. October 2016 Bycatch of chondrichthyans in a coastal trawl fishery on Chubut province coast and adjacent waters, Argentina J. Ruibal Núñez, N. D. Bovcon, P. D. Cochia, M. E. Góngora ABSTRACT: Chondrichthyans are usually caught incidentally in fisheries for species of high commercial value and then discarded on board or landed

Analysis of vertebral chemistry to assess stock structure in a deep-sea shark

First published online on 27. October 2016 Analysis of vertebral chemistry to assess stock structure in a deep-sea shark, Etmopterus spinax Matthew N. McMillan, Christopher Izzo, Claudia Junge, Ole Thomas Albert, Armelle Jung, Bronwyn M. Gillanders ABSTRACT: Deep-sea sharks play a valuable ecological role helping maintain food web balance, yet they are vulnerable to commercial

Relations between morphology, buoyancy and energetics of requiem sharks

Published on 26. October 2016 Relations between morphology, buoyancy and energetics of requiem sharks Gil Iosilevskii, Yannis P. Papastamatiou ABSTRACT: Sharks have a distinctive shape that remained practically unchanged through hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Nonetheless, there are variations of this shape that vary between and within species. We attempt to explain these