New distributional and morphological data of two species of catsharks, genus Scyliorhinus Blainville, 1816 (Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae), from the western South Atlantic [PDF]
Check List, 2020 This study provides new distributional and morphological information for two recently described species of catsharks (Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) from Brazil.
Stephani M. Lopes +3 more
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The biology and ecology of the Pacific sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon longurio
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Amidst global declines in elasmobranch populations resulting predominantly from overfishing, the need to gather data regarding shark ecology is greater than ever.
Joel H. Gayford, Darren A. Whitehead
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Sawfishes and Other Elasmobranch Assemblages from the Mio-Pliocene of the South Caribbean (Urumaco Sequence, Northwestern Venezuela). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The Urumaco stratigraphic sequence, western Venezuela, preserves a variety of paleoenvironments that include terrestrial, riverine, lacustrine and marine facies.
Jorge D Carrillo-Briceño +4 more
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Parasite, 2019 Recent examinations of camallanid nematodes (Camallanidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia, collected in the years 2003–2011, revealed the presence of the following five new species of Procamallanus Baylis, 1923, all belonging to the subgenus ...
Moravec František, Justine Jean-Lou
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New host and ocean records for Driocephalus cerebrinoxius (Sphyriidae, Siphonostomatoida) and a reconsideration of phylogeny within Sphyriidae. [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2006 Background. Driocephalus cerebrinoxius is an unusual representative of an unusual family of parasitic copepods (Sphyriidae, Siphonostomatoida, Copepoda). This report documents new host and ocean records for D. cerebrinoxius and considers the phylogenetic
G.W. Benz +4 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018 We present the complete mitochondrial genome of the common smoothhound , Mustelus mustelus,which is 16,755 bp long, contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and non-coding control region.
Kelvin L. Hull +2 more
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Morphology of the anterior vertebral region in elasmobranchs: special focus, Squatiniformes [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2011 The morphology of extant and extinct Squatiniformes is well conserved within this lineage, but differences are of consequence to character interpretations for phylogenetic analyses.
K. M. Claeson, A. Hilger
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Escamas de tubarões (Pisces: Chondrichthyes) da Formação Pirabas (Eomioceno), Pará, Brasil
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais, 2008 A falta de posicionamento estratigráfico dos fósseis de tubarões até então coletados na Formação Pirabas dificultou a utilização dos mesmos em interpretações paleoecológicas e distribuição temporal.
Samantha Florinda Cecim Carvalho de Oliveira +2 more
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Repeated observations of cetaceans and carcharhiniformes associations in the Red Sea [PDF]
Marine Biodiversity, 2015 Shark-cetacean aggregations and associations of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) with other cetaceans have been reported previously (e.g., Heithaus 2001; Baird et al. 2008). However, this is the first description of nonaggressive associations of P. crassidens with noncetaceans. Here we report encounters of P.
Röthig, Till +6 more
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Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2015 Se reporta el albinismo parcial de un embrión macho de tiburón de puntas negras, Carcharhinus limbatus, capturado en aguas costeras mexicanas del Pacífico oriental.
Francisco Sancho-Vazquez +2 more
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