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Please acknowledge use of the database www.shark-references.com in your publications, and cite: 

Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. 2018, Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali), www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 2018

NEWS/ OWN RESEARCH

 

POTY 2017 is out!!



Dear friends of shark-references!

The new open access report "Papers Of The Year 2017 (POTY 2017)" is ready for download!

New in this year's POTY is the subheader "biodiversity" comprising a complete list of all valid chimaeriform, selachian and batoid species, as well as a list of the top 20 most researched chondrichthyan species!


Happy new year!

Nico (nicolas.straube@shark-references.com) and Jürgen (juergen.pollerspoeck@shark-references.com)

 

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New Images:

Many thanks to the following people for providing images:

Pradip Patade, India for the images of Torpedo sinuspersici OLFERS, 1831, Sassoon dock , Mumbai, India


M. Stehmann, Elasmo-Lab Hamburg, germany for the images of Hydrolagus pallidusHARDY & STEHMANN, 1990, adult, male, length: 740 mm BL, 1107 mm TL, date vessel station: 09.12.1974, "W. Herwig“- Stat. 956/74, location: Great Sole-Bank NW, paratype, ZMH 25393 (old ISH: 831-1974):


and 
Galeus melastomus (LINNAEUS, 1758)


and Centroscyllium fabricii (REINHARDT, 1825), female, 1986


and Hydrolagus mirabilis (COLLETT, 1904), 9.12.1974


Pradip Patade, India for images of Rhina ancylostoma BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, 1801, size of head is around one feet, Sassoon Dock, Mumbai, India


Frederik H. Mollen (Elasmobranch Research Belgium) for the images of Aetobatus ocellatus (ERB 1033), female, 55,0 DW, 139,5 TL, South of Java, Indonesia


and Aetomylaeus bovinus (GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, 1817) (ERB 1031), female, 73,0 DW, 111,2 TL, Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey


Muhammad Iqbal, Sriwijaya University, Indonesia for the images of Fluvitrygon signifer(COMPAGNO & ROBERTS, 1982), Sumatra


Bhagyalekshmi Venugopal, Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries, University of Kerala for the images of Acroteriobatus variegatus (NAIR & LAL MOHAN, 1973), male, TL ca. 55 cm, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 05.10.2017:


and Orbiraja powelli (ALCOCK, 1898), female, TL 42 cm, Muttom, Tamilnadu, India, 07.01.2017.


Bianca de Sousa Rangel, University of São Paulo (IB-USP) for the images of Zapteryx brevirostris (MÜLLER & HENLE,1838), Female mature (pregnant), 42,3 cm TL, 21,0 cm DW Guarujá, São Paulo, Southern Brazil


SÉBASTIEN ENAULT, http://www.kraniata.com for the image of Chlamydoselachus anguineus GARMAN, 1884, off Japan, female (?):

 
 
 

Missing papers:

Many thanks to all friends of shark-references, who sent us some missing papers last month!

Shark-References would kindly like to ask you for your contribution to this project.

Please support www.shark-references.com and send missing papers (not listed papers or papers without the info-symbol) to juergen.pollerspoeck@shark-references.com or nicolas.straube@shark-references.com



 

 

Upcoming Meetings:

II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology – Montpellier 2018


ESEB is delighted to welcome you to the Second Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Joint Congresses take place every six years and bring together four of the world's largest academic societies in the field of evolutionary biology: the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the American Society of Naturalists, the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists. The first joint congress was in Ottawa, Canada in 2012. The current (i.e. second) will be held in Montpellier, France, on August 19-22 2018.

OCS 2018 MEETING



The website and registration details for the OCS 2018 meeting next February are now online at http://www.oceaniasharks.org.au/conference-2018
 
The 2018 conference is going to be a little different. It’s going to be at Moreton Bay Research Station which is where in the early 2000’s a group of students started their own chondrichthyan focused workshops and seminars to provide a supportive and inclusive forum for presenting shark and ray research. Those events were part of what became the OCS in 2005. In 2018, we’re returning to where some of those early meetings were held, and incidentally, to a beautiful location on the coast with opportunities to dive with manta rays and leopard sharks following the conference. Research station based meetings have a different feel to the normal city or campus based meetings, and Stradbroke Island really is a beautiful location.
 
Registration and abstract submission are via the online form. Upon registering you should receive a PayPal receipt email as well as an acknowledgement from the conference website. If you encounter any problems with online registration or abstract submission, please contact Jon Smart (Jonathan.Smart@sa.gov.au).   
 
The deadline for abstracts is January 22.


SHARKS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE



SHARKS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
João Pessoa, 3-8 June, 2018
The Sharks International Conference is the first truly international event devoted to elasmobranchs, and its first two editions were held respectively in Cairns, Australia in 2010 and Durban, South Africa in 2014. The city of João Pessoa was chosen as the venue for this important event, which will also congregate members of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Elasmobranchs (SBEEL) and the American Elasmobranch Society (AES) in 2018.
João Pessoa, founded in August 5, 1585, is the capital of Paraíba state, northeastern Brazil. It is located in the easternmost portion of the Americas, where a cape named Ponta do Seixas enters the Atlantic Ocean. Its coastline extends for 24 kilometers, with nine beaches. The downtown area and neighbouring municipalities present many historical and tourist sites.
More information and an internet site of the event will soon be available. We hope to have many participants from all over the world.

The website and registration details for the OCS 2018 meeting next February are now online at http://www.oceaniasharks.org.au/conference-2018
 
The 2018 conference is going to be a little different. It’s going to be at Moreton Bay Research Station which is where in the early 2000’s a group of students started their own chondrichthyan focused workshops and seminars to provide a supportive and inclusive forum for presenting shark and ray research. Those events were part of what became the OCS in 2005. In 2018, we’re returning to where some of those early meetings were held, and incidentally, to a beautiful location on the coast with opportunities to dive with manta rays and leopard sharks following the conference. Research station based meetings have a different feel to the normal city or campus based meetings, and Stradbroke Island really is a beautiful location.
 
Registration and abstract submission are via the online form. Upon registering you should receive a PayPal receipt email as well as an acknowledgement from the conference website. If you encounter any problems with online registration or abstract submission, please contact Jon Smart (Jonathan.Smart@sa.gov.au).   
 
 
 
TAXONOMIC NEWS/ NEW SPECIES


Extinct Chondrichthyes:


FUCHS, I. & ENGELBRECHT, A. & LUKENEDER, A. & KRIWET, J. (2017): New Early Cretaceous sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from deep-water deposits of Austria. Cretaceous Research, in press
New genus: Altusmirus, Fornicatus, Similiteroscyllium
New species: Altusmirus triquetrus, Similiteroscyllium iniquus, Fornicatus austriacus
Abstract: Early Cretaceous elasmobranchs still are very insufficiently known despite all progress that has been accomplished in recent years. Here, a small elasmobranch assemblage is presented from the Valanginian of Austria that contributes significantly to a better understanding of early Cretaceous elasmobranch diversity. The new assemblage comprises two new carcharhiniform sharks, Altusmirus triquetrus gen. et sp. nov. and Fornicatus austriacus gen. et sp. nov., a new orectolobiform shark, Similiteroscyllium iniquus gen. et sp. nov., and a galeomorph shark tooth of uncertain affinities. The recent identification of Similiteroscyllium gen. nov. has shown that it has strong similarities with Ornatoscyllium rugasimulatum from the Lower Cretaceous of France. Significant differences of the tooth morphology of O. rugasimulatum and the type specimen O. freemanijustify full reconsideration of the systematic position of O. rugasimulatum and require it to be reassigned to Similiteroscylliumgen. nov. described in this paper. The new assemblage described here, and those from the Valanginian of France and Poland comprising 30 additional taxa, indicates that Early Cretaceous elasmobranch diversity was significantly higher than previously assumed. Consequently, the supposed diversity decline of elasmobranchs across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary represents a collecting bias rather than a real pattern.


EBERSOLE, J.A. & EHRET, D.J. (2018):
 A new species of Cretalamna sensu stricto (Lamniformes, Otodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) of Alabama, USA. PeerJ, 6: e4229
New species: Cretalamna bryanti
Abstract: Decades of collecting from exposures of the Upper Cretaceous Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation and Mooreville Chalk in Alabama, USA has produced large numbers of isolated Cretalamna (sensu stricto) teeth. Many of these teeth had formerly been assigned to the extinct Late Cretaceous shark Cretalamna appendiculata (Agassiz, 1843), a taxon that is now considered largely restricted to the Turonian of Europe. Recent studies have shed light on the diversity of Late Cretaceous Cretalamna (s.s.) taxa, and here we recognize a new species from Alabama, Cretalamna bryanti. The teeth of C. bryanti sp. nov. appear aligned with the members of the Cretalamna borealis species group, but can be distinguished from these other species by a combination of the following: anterior teeth with a more pronounced and triangular lingual root protuberance, broader triangular cusp, and a taller root relative to the height of the crown; anteriorly situated lateroposterior teeth have a distally inclined or hooked main cusp and more than one pair of lateral cusplets; and lateroposterior teeth have a strong distally hooked main cusp and a root that is largely symmetrical in basal view. At present, C. bryanti sp. nov. is stratigraphically confined to the Santonian/Campanian Dicarinella asymetrica Sigal, 1952 and Globotruncanita elevata Brotzen, 1934 Planktonic Foraminiferal Zones within the Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Formation and Mooreville Chalk, and teeth have been collected from only four counties in central and western Alabama. The recognition of C. bryanti sp. nov. in Alabama adds to our knowledge on the diversity and distribution of Late Cretaceous otodontids in the region.
 
PAULIV, V.E. & MARTINELLI, A.G. & FRANCISCHINI, H. & DENTZIEN-DIAS, P. & SOARES, M.B. & SCHULTZ, C.L. & RIBEIRO, A.M. (2017): The first Western Gondwanan species of Triodus Jordan 1849: A new Xenacanthiformes (Chondrichthyes) from the late Paleozoic of Southern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 80: 482-493
New species: Triodus richterae
AbstractTriodus is a well-known genus of Xenacanthiformes, previously recorded from the late Bashkirian (Lower Pennsylvanian, Carboniferous) to the middle Artinskian (Cisuralian, Permian), mainly from Laurasian deposits (Europe and USA). For the first time, this genus is recorded from the Western Gondwana, based on isolated teeth that are referred to Triodus richterae sp. nov. The new species were found associated with other shark teeth (another xenacanthiforms and a possible euselachian), palaeoniscoid teeth and scales, labyrinthodont teeth, tetrapod bony remains, macroscopic charcoal and leaf fragments. This fossil assemblage was collected in a conglomerate layer from the Barro Alto site (São Gabriel municipality, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil), with an estimated Capitanian age, from the Morro Pelado Member, Rio do Rasto Formation, Paraná Basin. The new species has teeth with an almost oval base and the aboral surface has a smooth concavity and a rounded to horseshoe-shaped basal tubercle. The coronal surface of these teeth has a tricuspid crown, a rhomboid-shaped coronal button with rounded edges with a lingually directed shaft and some oral foramina predominantly situated at the lingual margin of the base and flanking the lingual shaft. The lateral cusps bear a variable number of non-branching vertical cristae, distributed from the apex to their proximal portion, making the transversal section of these cusps asterisk-shaped. Microstructurally, these teeth have both base and cusps composed of orthodentine with an opened pulp cavity. T. richterae sp. nov. represents the youngest species of Triodus, considering it comes from Capitanian (late Guadalupian) beds, which are at least 15 Ma younger than T. kraetschmeri, the previously youngest species of this genus. The depositional interpretation, as well as the fossil assemblage in the type locality of the new species and of the Rio do Rasto Formation as a whole, indicates another freshwater record for xenacanthid sharks.

Parasites:

DIPPENAAR, S.M. (2017): Description of four new species and a revision of the genus Tripaphylus Richiardi in Anonymous, 1878 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Sphyriidae). Systematic Parasitology, in press
New species: Tripaphylus lewisi,Tripaphylus benzi, Tripaphylus hoi, Tripaphylus beatricae
Abstract: Tripaphylus Richiardi in Anonymous, 1878 is one of the genera of the Sphyriidae Wilson, 1919 and it currently accommodates ten species. Only scanty descriptions are available for the females and some males of the species. Tripaphylus specimens, described and illustrated in this paper, were collected from elasmobranch hosts off the South African coast or came from the private collection of the late Dr G. Benz. Collected specimens were fixed and preserved in 70% ethanol, examined by light - and scanning electron microscopy, and compared with the known species. Descriptions and illustrations are provided for the transformed adult females and males of Telongatus (Wilson, 1932) and Tversicolor (Wilson, 1919) while illustrated descriptions of the transformed adult females are also provided for Tferox (Wilson, 1919) and Tvaissierei (Delamare Deboutteville & Nuñes-Ruivo, 1954). Additionally, the material previously reported as Tferox is considered to represent Telongatus and that reported as Tlobatus (Kirtisinghe, 1964) is considered a junior synonym of Tvaissierei. Based on the collected material the transformed adult female and male of Tlewisi n. sp. are described as well as the adult transformed females of Tbenzi n. sp., Thoi n. sp., and Tbeatricae n. sp. A summarised review of the main features is provided for each of the previously described Tmusteli (van Beneden, 1851), Themigalei Kirtisinghe, 1964, Taustralis (Kabata, 1993), Ttriakis (Castro Romero, 2001) and Tasymboli (Turner, Kyne & Bennett, 2003). Furthermore, reasons are provided for the recommendation that Themigalei be considered a species inquirenda. An identification key to the transformed adult females of all species of Tripaphylus is provided and the host records are also updated.
 
 

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Latest Research Articles


Extant Chondrichthyes:

ADEMOLLO, N. & PATROLECCO, L. & RAUSEO, J. & NIELSEN, J. & CORSOLINI, S. (2018) Bioaccumulation of nonylphenols and bisphenol A in the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus from the Greenland seawaters. Microchemical Journal, 136: 106-112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2016.11.0139                 
ALKUSAIRY, H.H. & SAAD, A.A. (2017) Some morphological and biological aspects of longnosed skate, Dipturus oxyrinchus (Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes: Rajidae), in Syrian marine waters (eastern Mediterranean). Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 47 (4): 371–383 http://dx.doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02283 
AUGUSTINE, S. & LIKA, K. & KOOIJMAN, SALM (2017) Comment on the ecophysiology of the Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus. Polar Biology, 40 (12): 2429-2433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2154-8  
BAKKER, J. & WANGENSTEEN, O.S. & CHAPMAN, D.D. & BOUSSARIE, G. & BUDDO, D. & GUTTRIDGE, T.L. & HERTLER, H. & MOUILLOT, D. & VIGLIOLA, L. & MARIANI, S. (2017) Environmental DNA reveals tropical shark diversity in contrasting levels of anthropogenic impact. Scientific Reports, 7: 16886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17150-2  
BARRY, S.N. & CROW, K.D. (2017) The role of HoxA11 and HoxA13 in the evolution of novel fin morphologies in a representative batoid (Leucoraja erinacea). EvoDevo, 8: 24 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13227-017-0088-4   
BOCKUS, A.B. & SEIBEL, B.A. (2018) Synthetic capacity does not predict elasmobranchs’ ability to maintain trimethylamine oxide without a dietary contribution. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2017.12.008  
BOGGETT, S. & STILES, J.-L. & SUMMERS, A.P. & FUDGE, D.S. (2017) Flaccid skin protects hagfishes from shark bites. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 14: 20170765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0765  
CERVANTES-GUTIÉRREZ, F. & TOVAR-ÁVILA, J. & GALVÁN-MAGAÑA, F. (2018) Age and growth of the banded guitarfish Zapteryx exasperata (Chondrichthyes: Trygonorrhinidae). Marine and Freshwater Research, 69 (1): 66-73 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF16403  
CHEN, X. & WANG, J.J. & AI, W.M. & CHEN, H. & LIN, H.D. (2018) Phylogeography and genetic population structure of the spadenose shark (Scoliodon macrorhynchos) from the Chinese coast. Mitochondrial DNA Part A, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2017.1413363  
COLLOCA, F. & ENEA, M. & RAGONESE, S. & DI LORENZO, M. (2017) A century of fishery data documenting the collapse of smooth-hounds (Mustelus spp.) in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 27 (6): 1145-1155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2789  
DAVIDSON, L.N.K. & DULVY, N.K. (2017) Global marine protected areas to prevent extinctions. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (2): 0040 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0040     
DEDMAN, S. & OFFICER, R. & CLARKE, M. & REID, D.G. & BROPHY, D. (2017) Gbm.auto: A software tool to simplify spatial modelling and Marine Protected Area planning. PLoS ONE, 12 (12): e0188955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188955         
ESTUPIÑÁN-MONTAÑO, C. & GALVÁN-MAGAÑA, F. & TAMBURIN, E. & SÁNCHEZ-GONZÁLEZ, A. & VILLALOBOS-RAMÍREZ, D.J. & MURILLO-BOHÓRQUEZ, N. & BESSUDO-LION, S. & ESTUPIÑÁN-ORTIZ, J.F. (2017) Trophic inference in two sympatric sharks, Sphyrna lewini and Carcharhinus falciformis (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes), based on stable isotope analysis at Malpelo Island, Colombia. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 47 (4): 357–364 http://dx.doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02177                          
FARCOMENI, A. (2018) Fully general Chao and Zelterman estimators with application to a whale shark population. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics, 67 (1): 217-229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12219 
FELDHEIM, K.A. & FIELDS, A.T. & CHAPMAN, D.D. & SCHARER, R.M. & POULAKIS, G.R. (2017) Insights into reproduction and behavior of the smalltooth sawfish Pristis pectinata. Endangered Species Research, 34: 463-471 http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/esr00868  
FERNANDES, P.G. & RALPH, G.M. & NIETO, A. & CRIADO, M.G. & VASILAKOPOULOS, P. & MARAVELIAS, C.D. & COOK, R.M. & POLLOM, R.A. & KOVACIC, M. & POLLARD, D. & FARRELL, E.D. & FLORIN, A.B. & POLIDORO, B.A. & LAWSON, J.M. & LORANCE, P. & UIBLEIN, F. & CRAIG, M. & ALLEN, D.J. & FOWLER, S.L. & WALLS, R.H.L. & COMEROS-RAYNAL, M.T. & HARVEY, M.S. & DUREUIL, M. & BISCOITO, M. & POLLOCK, C. & PHILLIPS, S.R.M. & ELLIS, J.R. & PAPACONSTANTINOU, C. & SOLDO, A. & KESKIN, C. & KNUDSEN, S.W. & DE SOLA, L.G. & SERENA, F. & COLLETTE, B.B. & NEDREAAS, K. & STUMP, E. & RUSSELL, B.C. & GARCIA, S. & AFONSO, P. & JUNG, A.B.J. & ALVAREZ, H. & DELGADO, J. & DULVY, N.K. & CARPENTER, K.E. (2017) Coherent assessments of Europe’s marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (7): 0170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0170 
FISH, F.E. & DONG, H.B. & ZHU, J.J. & BART-SMITH, H. (2017) Kinematics and Hydrodynamics of Mobuliform Swimming: Oscillatory Winged Propulsion by Large Pelagic Batoids. Marine Technology Society Journal, 51 (5): 35-47                           
FONTENELLE, J.P. & LOBODA, T.S. & KOLMANN, M. & DE CARVALHO, M.R. (2018) Angular cartilage structure and variation in Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygonidae), with comments on their function and evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx054           
FUJINAMI, Y. & NAKATSUKA, S. & OHSHIMO, S. (2018) Feeding Habits of the Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) in the Northwestern Pacific Based on Stomach Contents and Stable Isotope Ratios. Pacific Science, 72 (1): 21-39 http://dx.doi.org/10.2984/72.1.2 
FUOCHI, V. & LI VOLTI, G. & CAMIOLO, G. & TIRALONGO, F. & GIALLONGO, C. & DISTEFANO, A. & PETRONIO, G.P. & BARBAGALLO, I. & VIOLA, M. & FURNERI, P.M. & DI ROSA, M. & AVOLA, R. & TIBULLO, D. (2017) Antimicrobial and Anti-Proliferative Effects of Skin Mucus Derived from Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758). Marine Drugs, 15 (11): 342 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md15110342 
GARCÍA, C.B. (2017) What do we know about soft-bottom elasmobranch species richness in the Colombian Caribbean and of its spatial distribution? Regional Studies in Marine Science, 9: 62-68 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2016.11.006 
GARCÍA, C.B. (2017) Presence and distribution of Chimaeriformes in the Colombian Caribbean Sea. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 12 (1): 85-88                           
GILBY, B.L. & OLDS, A.D. & CONNOLLY, R.M. & YABSLEY, N.A. & MAXWELL, P.S. & TIBBETTS, I.R. & SCHOEMAN, D.S. & SCHLACHER, T.A. (2017) Umbrellas can work under water: Using threatened species as indicator and management surrogates can improve coastal conservation. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 199: 132-140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.10.003         
GILLIS, J.A. & ALSEMA, E.C. & CRISWELL, K.E. (2017) Trunk neural crest origin of dermal denticles in a cartilaginous fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114 (50): 13200-13205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713827114                           
GONZALEZ-PESTANA, A. & ALFARO-SHIGUETO, J. & MANGEL, J.C. & ESPINOZA, P. (2017) Mercury levels in the Smooth Hammerhead Shark Sphyrna zygaena (Carcharhiniformes: Sphyrnidae) from Northern Peru. Revista Peruana de Biología, 24 (4): 407-41 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v24i4.14066 
GUIDA, L. & DAPP, D.R. & HUVENEERS, C.P.M. & WALKER, T.I. & REINA, R.D. (2017) Evaluating time-depth recorders as a tool to measure the behaviour of sharks captured on longlines. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 497: 120-126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.09.011 
HAMMERSCHLAG, N. & BARLEY, S.C. & IRSCHICK, D.J. & MEEUWIG, J.J. & NELSON, E.R. & MEEKAN ,M.G. (2018) Predator declines and morphological changes in prey: evidence from coral reefs depleted of sharks. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 586: 127-139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps12426 
HAMMERSCHLAG, N. & MEYER, M. & SEAKAMELA, S.M. & KIRKMAN, S. & FALLOWS, C. & CREEL, S. (2017) Physiological stress responses to natural variation in predation risk: evidence from white sharks and seals. Ecology, 98 (12): 3199-3210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2049 
HANSELL, A.C. & KESSEL, S.T. & BREWSTER, L.R. & CADRIN, S.X. & GRUBER, S.H. & SKOMAL, G.B. & GUTTRIDGE, T.L. (2018) Local indicators of abundance and demographics for the coastal shark assemblage of Bimini, Bahamas. Fisheries Research, 197: 34-44 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2017.09.016  
HARA, K. & FURUMITSU, K. & AOSHIMA, T. & KANEHARA, H. & YAMAGUCHI, A. (2018) Age, growth, and age at sexual maturity of the commercially landed skate species, Dipturus chinensis (Basilewsky, 1855), in the northern East China Sea. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 34 (1): 66–72 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jai.13575 
HENDERSON, P.A. (2017) Long-term temporal and spatial changes in the richness and relative abundance of the inshore fish community of the British North Sea Coast. Journal of Sea Research, 127: 212-226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2017.06.011 
HERBERT, N.A. & SKOV, P.V. & TIRSGAARD, B. & BUSHNELL, P.G. & BRILL, R.W. & CLARK, C.H. & STEFFENSEN, J.F. (2017) Blood O-2 affinity of a large polar elasmobranch, the Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus. Polar Biology, 40 (11): 2297-2305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2142-z 
HETJENS, B. (2017) Multielementanalyse an fossilen Haizähnen mittels (LA-) ICP-MS und XRF. Thesis (B. Sc.), Hochschule Rhein-Waal                           
HIROKO, K. (2017) Characteristic fine structures of uterine activity of a pregnant Great White Shark. Placenta, 59: 171-172  
HUSTON, C.A. & STEVENS, P.W. & BLAXTON, R.M. & TOLLEY, G. & SCHARER, R.M. & TORNWALL, B.M. & POULAKIS, G.R. (2017) Diel movements of juvenile smalltooth sawfish: implications for defining the size of a nursery hotspot. Endangered Species Research, 34: 311-322 
IQBAL, M. & SETIAWAN, D. & AJIMAN (2018) New data on the distribution of the endangered white-edge freshwater whipray Fluvitrygon signifer (Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 28 82): 171-176 
ISCI, E.T. & RITTER, E. (2017) Comment on clinical features of 27 shark attack cases on La Reunion Island. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 83 (6): 1216-1216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ta.0000000000001669                           
JANUŠONIS, S. (2018) Some Galeomorph Sharks Express a Mammalian Microglia-Specific Protein in Radial Ependymoglia of the Telencephalon. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000484196 
JOSEPH, D. & CHAKRABORTY, K. (2017) Enrichment of C20-22 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids from Refined Liver Oil of Leafscale Gulper Shark, Centrophorus squamosus. Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology, 26 (9): 1042-1056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10498850.2017.1375588  
KILFOIL, J.P. & WIRSING, A.J. & CAMPBELL, M.D. & KISZKA, J.J. & GASTRICH, K.R. & HEITHAUS, M.R. & ZHANG, Y.Y. & BOND, M.E. (2017) Baited Remote Underwater Video surveys undercount sharks at high densities: insights from full-spherical camera technologies. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 585: 113-121 http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps12395                           
KNOTEK, R.J. & RUDDERS, D.B. & MANDELMAN, J.W. & BENOIT, H.P. & SULIKOWSKI, J.A. (2018) The survival of rajids discarded in the New England scallop dredge fisheries. Fisheries Research, 198: 50-62 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2017.10.015                           
KNOTEL, D. & SEIDEL, R. & PROHASKA, S. & DEANE, M.N. & BAUM, D. (2017) Automated segmentation of complex patterns in biological tissues: Lessons from stingray tessellated cartilage.  PLoS ONE, 12 (12): e0188018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188018                           
KOLMANN, M.A. & ELBASSIOUNY, A.A. & LIVERPOOL, E.A. & LOVEJOY, N.R. (2017) DNA barcoding reveals the diversity of sharks in Guyana coastal markets. Neotropical Ichthyology, 15 (4):  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-20170097 
KRAJANGDARA, T. (2017) The Cartilaginous Fishes (Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras) found in Thai Waters and the Adjacent Areas. Thailand, ISBN: 978-6 16-358-237-9                           
LAMARCA, F. & RIBEIRO, N. & GALHEIGO, F. & VIANNA, M. (2017) The first record of diprosopus tetrophthalmus in the South Atlantic Ocean: The case of Prionace glauca (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in Brazil. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 47 (4): 385–389 http://dx.doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02226                           
LANTERI, L. & CASTELLANO, L. & GARIBALDI, F. (2017) New record of Alopias superciliosus Lowe, 1841 in the North-Western Mediterranean and annotated review of the Mediterranean records. Acta Adriatica, 58 (2): 313 - 324 
LEONE, A. & URSO, I. & DAMALAS, D. & MARTINSOHN, J. & ZANZI, A. & MARIANI, S. & SPERONE, E. & MICARELLI, P. & GARIBALDI, F. & MEGALOFONOU, P. & BARGELLONI, L. & FRANCH, R. & MACIAS, D. & PRODÖHL, P. & FITZPATRICK, S. & STAGIONI, M. & TINTI, F. & CARIANI, A. (2017) Genetic differentiation and phylogeography of Mediterranean-North Eastern Atlantic blue shark (Prionace glauca, L. 1758) using mitochondrial DNA: panmixia or complex stock structure? PeerJ, 5: e4112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4112 
MADUNA, S.N. & BESTER-VAN DER MERWE, A.E. (2017) Molecular research on the systematically challenging smoothhound shark genus Mustelus: a synthesis of the past 30 years. African Journal of Marine Science, 39 (4): 373-387 http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2017.1394365                           
MARIE, A.D. & MILLER, C. & CAWICH, C. & PIOVANO, S. & RICO, C. (2017) Fisheries-independent surveys identify critical habitats for young scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) in the Rewa Delta, Fiji. Scientific Reports, 7: 17273 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17152-0                           
MAROUANI, S. & KADRI, H. & KARAA, S. & BRADAI, M.N. (2018) Feeding ecology of the piked spurdog Squalus megalops (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) in the Gulf of Gabès (central Mediterranean Sea). Marine and Freshwater Research, 69 (1): 48-55 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF17018 
MORAIS, R.A. & FERREIRA, C.E.L. & FLOETER, S.R. (2017) Spatial patterns of fish standing biomass across Brazilian reefs. Journal of Fish Biology, 91 (6): 1642-1667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13482                           
NICOLAUS, E.E.M. & BARRY, J. & BOLAM, T.P.C. & LORANCE, P. & MARANDEL, F. & PHILLIPS, S.R.M. & NEVILLE, S. & ELLIS, J.R. (2017) Concentrations of mercury and other trace elements in two offshore skates: sandy ray Leucoraja circularis and shagreen ray L. fullonica. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 123 (1-2): 387-394 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.08.054 
NIELLA, Y.V. & HAZIN, F.H.V. & AFONSO, A.S. (2017) Detecting Multispecific Patterns in the Catch Composition of a Fisheries-Independent Longline Survey. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 9 (1): 388-395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2017.1347115  
OKAMOTO, E. & KUSAKABE, R. & KURAKU, S. & HYODO, S. & ROBERT-MORENO, A. & ONIMARU, K. & SHARPE, J. & KURATANI, S. & TANAKA, M. (2017) Migratory appendicular muscles precursor cells in the common ancestor to all vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1 (11): 1731-1736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0330-4                          
OMORI, K.L. & FISHER, R.A. (2017) Summer and fall movement of cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus, along the east coast of United States observed with pop-up satellite tags. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100 (11): 1435-1449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-017-0654-6                           
O‘SHEA, O.R. & WUERINGER, B.E. & WINCHESTER, M.M. & BROOKS, E.J. (2018) Comparative feeding ecology of the yellow ray Urobatis jamaicensis (Urotrygonidae) from The Bahamas. Journal of Fish Biology, 92 (1): 73–84 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13488 
PAPIOL, V. & FANELLI, E. & CARTES, J.E. & RUMOLO, P. & LOPEZ-PEREZ, C. (2017) A multi-tissue approach to assess the effects of lipid extraction on the isotopic composition of deep-sea fauna. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 497: 230-242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2017.10.001 
PEPIN-NEFF, C.L. & WYNTER, W. (2018) Reducing fear to influence policy preferences: An experiment with sharks and beach safety policy options. Marine Policy, 88: 222–229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.11.023 
RANGEL, B.S. & WOSNICK, N. & AMORIM, A.F. & KFOURY-JUNIOR, J.R. & RICI, R.E.G. (2017) Microscopic aspects of electrosensory system on the partially euryhaline lesser guitarfish. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 89 (1): 103-118 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201720150889 
RASHER, D.B. & HOEY, A.S. & HAY, M.E. (2017) Cascading predator effects in a Fijian coral reef ecosystem. Scientific Reports, 7: 15684 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15679-w   
REED, J.R. & KERWATH, S.E. & ATTWOOD, C.G. (2017) Analysis of bycatch in the South African midwater trawl fishery for horse mackerel Trachurus capensis based on observer data. African Journal of Marine Science, 39 (3): 279-291 http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2017.1366365                           
SALINAS-DE-LEON, P. & HOYOS-PADILLA, E.M. & POCHET, F. (2017) First observation on the mating behaviour of the endangered scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 100 (12): 1603-1608 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-017-0668-0 
SENTOSA, A.A. & DHARMADI (2017) Catch and relative abundance of some sharks landing in Tanjung in Luar, Lombok. Widyariset, 3 (2): 131 - 142 
SULIKOWSKI, J.A. & BENOIT, H.P. & CAPIZZANO, C.W. & KNOTEK, R.J. & MANDELMAN, J.W. & PLATZ, T. & RUDDERS, D.B. (2018) Evaluating the condition and discard mortality of winter skate, Leucoraja ocellata, following capture and handling in the Atlantic monkfish (Lophius americanus) sink gillnet fishery. Fisheries Research, 198: 159-164 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2017.10.001
TRIBUZIO, C.A. & MATTA, M.E. & GBURSKI, C. & BLOOD, C. & BUBLEY, W. & KRUSE, G.H. (2018) Are Pacific spiny dogfish lying about their age? A comparison of ageing structures for Squalus suckleyi. Marine and Freshwater Research, 69 (1): 37-47 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF16329 
UCHOA, M.P. & O‘CONNELL, C.P. & GOREAU, T.J. (2017) The effects of Biorock-associated electric fields on the Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) and the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas). Animal Biology, 67 (3-4): 191-208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15707563-00002531                           
VALLS, M. & RUEDA, L. & QUETGLAS, A. (2017) Feeding strategies and resource partitioning among elasmobranchs and cephalopods in Mediterranean deep-sea ecosystems. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 128: 28-41 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.09.002 
VAZQUEZ, D.M. & BELLEGGIA, M. & SCHEJTER, L. & MABRAGAÑA, E. (2018) Avoiding being dragged away: finding egg cases of Schroederichthys bivius (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) associated with benthic invertebrates. Journal of Fish Biology, 92 (1): 248–253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13490                           
VELTE, F. & FLEISSNER, G. & FLEISSNER, GU. (2017) Chronoethologische Untersuchungen am Braungebänderten Bambushai (Chiloscyllium punctatum) unter besonerer Berücksichtigung des Faktors Nahrung. Abstract. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ichthyologie, 14. Tagung, Abstracts: 39-40                             
WINTNER, S.P. & KERWATH, S.E. (2018) Cold fins, murky waters and the moon: what affects shark catches in the bather-protection program of KwaZulu–Natal, South Africa? Marine and Freshwater Research, 69 (1): 167-177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF17126  
ZHAO, Y. & CHEN, M.R. & JIANG, C.P. & YANG, S.Y. & XIAO, J.M. (2017) Occurrence of an Intersexual Pacific Spadenose Shark Scoliodon macrorhynchos from the Southern Taiwan Strait. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 9 (1): 573-576 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2017.1383326 
ZHU, K.C. & LIANG, Y.Y. & WU, N. & GUO, H.Y. & ZHANG, N. & JIANG, S.G. & ZHANG, D.C. (2017) Sequencing and characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Japanese Swellshark (Cephalloscyllium umbratile). Scientific Reports, 7: 15299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15702-0                           


Extinct Chondrichthyes:

DANKINA, D. & CHAHUD, A. & RADZEVICIUS, S. & SPIRIDONOV, A. (2017) The first microfossil record of ichthyofauna from the Naujoji AkmenÄ— Formation (Lopingian), KarpÄ—nai Quarry, North Lithuania. Geological Quarterly, 61 (3): 602–610                             
EBERSOLE, J.A. & EHRET, D.J. (2018) A new species of Cretalamna sensu stricto (Lamniformes, Otodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) of Alabama, USA. PeerJ, 6: e4229 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4229                           
EVERAERT, S. (2017) Een bijzondere vondst van ‘Isurus’ flandricus (Leriche, 1910) uit het Rupeliaan (Oligoceen) van Vliermaal (Limburg, Vlaanderen) en enkele beschouwingen bij deze soort. [in Dutch] Afzettingen Wtkg, 38 (4): 74-79 
FIGUEROA, R.T. & DA COSTA MACHADO, D.M. (2018) The Paleozoic ichthyofauna of the Amazonas and Parnaíba basins, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.01.001 
FUCHS, I. & ENGELBRECHT, A. & LUKENEDER, A. & KRIWET, J. (2018) New Early Cretaceous sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from deep-water deposits of Austria. Cretaceous Research, 84: 245-257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.013                          
HALDIMANN, P. & GRAF, H.R. & JOST, J. (2017) Blatt 1171 Bülach. Geologischer Atlas Schweiz 1: 25 000, Erläut. 151. Bundesamt für Landestopografie, CH–3084 Wabern                           
MARRAMÀ, G. & CARNEVALE, G. & ENGELBRECHT, A. & CLAESON, K.M. & ZORZIN, R. (2018) A synoptic review of the Eocene (Ypresian) cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) of the Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte, Italy. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0387-z                          
PAULIV, V.E. & MARTINELLI, A.G. & FRANCISCHINI, H. & DENTZIEN-DIAS, P. & SOARES, M.B. & SCHULTZ, C.L. & RIBEIRO, A.M. (2017) The first Western Gondwanan species of Triodus Jordan 1849: A new Xenacanthiformes (Chondrichthyes) from the late Paleozoic of Southern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 80: 482-493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.09.007  
POLLERSPÖCK, J. & FLAMMENSBECK, C. & STRAUBE, N. (2018) Palaeocentroscymnus (Chondrichthyes: Somniosidae), a new sleeper shark genus from Miocene deposits of Austria (Europe). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0398-9                           
TRIF, N. & CODREA, V. (2017) Some Badenian fish teeth from Western Transylvania (Romania). Muzeul Olteniei Craiova. Oltenia. Studii ÅŸi comunicări. ÅžtiinÅ£ele Naturii, 33 (1): 7-17 
VAN BOECKEL, J. (2017) Voorkomen van de wezelhaai, Hemipristis serra, in het profiel van Rumst en de verspreiding van deze soort in het Mioceen van het Noordzeebekken. Afzettingen Wtkg, 38 (4): 68-72                           

Parasites:

BRUNANSKA, M. & PODDUBNAYA, L.G. (2017) Spermiogenesis and sperm ultrastructure in Calicotyle affinis Scott, 1911 (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Monopisthocotylea, Monocotylidae). Helminthologia, 54 (4): 348-357 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/helm-2017-0039                        
DALLARES, S. & PADROS, F. & CARTES, J.E. & SOLE, M. & CARRASSON, M. (2017) The parasite community of the sharks Galeus melastomus, Etmopterus spinax and Centroscymnus coelolepis from the NW Mediterranean deep-sea in relation to feeding ecology and health condition of the host and environmental gradients and variables. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 129: 41-58 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.09.007 
DIPPENAAR, S.M. (2018) Symbiotic Siphonostomatoida (Copepoda) collected from white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes, Lamnidae), during the OCEARCH expedition along the coast of South Africa. Crustaceana, 91 (1): 103-111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003746                 
DIPPENAAR, S.M. (2018) Description of four new species and a revision of the genus Tripaphylus Richiardi in Anonymous, 1878 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Sphyriidae). Systematic Parasitology, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9767-8  
DUCATTI, R. & TAKATSUKA, V. & AZEVEDO, V.G. & SANCHES, E.G. & PASCHOAL, F. & LUQUE, J.L. (2018) Occurrence of Metacaligus rufus (Wilson, 1908) (Copepoda, Caligidae) parasitizing the cownose ray Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill, 1815) (Elasmobranchii, Myliobatidae) in Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.175363         
IRIGOITIA, M.M. & BRAICOVICH, P.E. & LANFRANCHI, A.L. & FARBER, M.D. & TIMI, J.T. (2018) Distribution of anisakid nematodes parasitizing rajiform skates under commercial exploitation in the Southwestern Atlantic. International Journal of Food Microbiology, in press http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2017.12.009 
MACKENZIE, K. & PERT, C. (2018) Evidence for the decline and possible extinction of a marine parasite species caused by intensive fishing. Fisheries Research, 198: 63-65 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2017.10.014 
PRADEEP, H.D. & ARUN KUMAR, M. & SWAPNIL, S.S. (2017) First Report of Echthrogaleus denticulatus (Smith 1874) on the Pelagic Thresher Shark (Alopias pelagicus Nakamura 1935) from Indian EEZ of Andaman Sea. Sains Malaysiana, 46 (10): 1675–1678                           

 
 

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image: Galeocerdo cuvier (PÉRON & LESUEUR, 1822), © Albert Kok

 

Tagged tiger shark proving unstoppable

Date:         January 11, 2018
Source:     Nova Southeastern University
Summary: For more than a decade, researchers have been tagging and tracking sharks in order to study their migratory patterns and more. One tiger shark - Andy - is now the longest-ever tracked tiger shark, providing years worth of data for researchers.

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