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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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’