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Intra-oropharyngeal food transport and swallowing in white-spotted bamboo sharks
Intra-oropharyngeal food transport and swallowing in white-spotted bamboo sharks Noraly M. M. E. van Meer, Hannah I. Weller, Armita R. Manafzadeh, Elska B. Kaczmarek, Bradley Scott, Sander W. S. Gussekloo, Cheryl D. Wilga, Elizabeth L. Brainerd, Ariel L. Camp ABSTRACT: Despite the importance of intraoral food transport and swallowing, relatively few studies have examined the
First record of the ragged-tooth shark in the Venezuelan Caribbean
First record of the ragged-tooth shark, Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810), in the Venezuelan Caribbean Rafael Tavares, Leonardo Sanchez, Jose Manuel Briceño ABSTRACT: One specimen of the ragged-tooth shark, Odontaspis ferox, was caught by a commercial shark fishery to the north of Cape Codera (10° 56′ N, 66° 02′ W), northeastern Venezuela. The specimen (sex unidentified,