Migrations and habitat use of the smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena) in the Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
The smooth hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena, is a cosmopolitan semipelagic shark captured as bycatch in pelagic oceanic fisheries, especially pelagic longlines targeting swordfish and/or tunas.
AP Klimley +51 more
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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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Escamas de tubarões (Pisces: Chondrichthyes) da Formação Pirabas (Eomioceno), Pará, Brasil
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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First record of albinism in the swell shark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) [PDF]
We report the first record of albinism in the swell shark, Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman, 1880). The specimen was caught off the southern part of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. The shark had no skin pigmentation and golden-coloured eyes. The
E.E. Becerril-García +3 more
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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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Age and growth of the smooth hammerhead shark, Sphyrna zygaena, in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean, using vertebral sections [PDF]
The smooth hammerhead shark Sphyrna zygaena (Sphyrnidae) is regularly caught as bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries, but is one of the least studied of all pelagic sharks.
Abramoff +28 more
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Phylogenetic relationship of catshark species of the genus Scyliorhinus (Chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) based on comparative morphology [PDF]
The genus Scyliorhinus is part of the family Scyliorhinidae, the most diverse family of sharks and of the subfamily Scyliorhininae along with Cephaloscyllium and Poroderma.
Karla D. A. Soares +1 more
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We present a study of inter- and intra-familial relationships of the carcharhiniform shark family Triakidae aimed at testing existing hypotheses of relationships for this group and at improving understanding of the evolution of reproductive traits in elasmobranchs.
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA ( host institution ) +4 more
openaire +3 more sources
Foliculogénesis Ovárica en la Raya Marmorada, Sympterygia bonapartii (Müller & Henle, 1841) (Chondrichthyes, Rajidae) [PDF]
Los Condrictios se han convertido en un recurso económico importante en las últimas décadas, siendo Argentina uno de los países que más explota tiburones y rayas, incluso a niveles que exceden los límites de varias especies.
Díaz Andrade, María Constanza +3 more
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A new Oligocene site with terrestrial mammals and a selachian fauna from Minqar Tibaghbagh, the western Desert of Egypt [PDF]
A new fossil site at Minqar Tibaghbagh, east of Siwa, in the Egyptian Western Desert is described. This represents the first place in Egypt outside the Fayum Depression yielding Paleogene, terrestrial mammals.
Bosselaers, M. +5 more
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