NEWSLETTER 01/2012 14. January 2012

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• Dr. Hajime Ishihara, CEO, W&I Associates Corporation, Yokohama, Japan (Member of the Japanese Society of Elasmobranch Studies, Co-Regional Vice Chairman of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group for western north Pacific)
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Scull (Neurocranium) -Introduction-

 

The neurocranium of Cetorhinus maximus (GUNNERUS, 1765) by Kunihiko Izawa and Terukazu Shibata

 

The snout anterior to the mouth is somewhat longer than the jaw, measured on a horizontal line. It is wider than high, gradually narrowing anteriorly and curving ventrally. The ventral surface of the snout is widely concaved, forming a remarkable longitudinal groove leading to the mouth (Fig. 1). This form of snout in a small juvenile is considered to be realistic, rather than referable to distortion or shrinkage, as it showed no noticeable changes since capture of the specimen 16 years previously. The snout is supported throughout its length by rostral cartilages from the neurocranium and contains flabby ampullary tissue around the cartilages, especially in the proximal dorso-lateral portion. ... read more

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Papers of the year 2011 (new version: 09.01.2012) 66 pp, 1,2 MB NEW VERSION!

Tabel of Contents
1. Fossil................................................................................................................. - 2 -
1.1. Papers ............................................................................................................ - 2 -
1.1.1 Complete list (arrange in alphabetical order) ............................................. - 2 -
1.2. Abstracts ....................................................................................................... - 5 -
1.2.1 Complete list (arrange in alphabetical order) .............................................. - 5 -
2. Rezent ............................................................................................................... - 6 -
2.1 Papers ............................................................................................................. - 6 -
2.1.1. Complete list (arrange in alphabetical order) ............................................. - 6 -
2.2. Abstracts ........................................................................................................ - 37 -
2.2.1 Complete list (arrange in alphabetical order) .............................................. - 37 -
3. Database Reports .............................................................................................. - 48 -
3.1 Species Descriptions –fossil- ......................................................................... - 48 -
3.2 Species Descriptions –recent- ........................................................................ - 49 -
3.3 Parasitology ................................................................................................... - 50 -
3.4 Distribution .................................................................................................... - 52 -
3.5 Reproduction .................................................................................................. - 59 -
3.6 Diet ................................................................................................................. - 62 -
3.7 Size ................................................................................................................. - 63 -
3.8 Taxonomy ....................................................................................................... - 65 -
4. Index.................................................................................................................. - 67 -
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New paper of Detlev Thies (partner of shark-references) and Armin Leidner

Abstract:

 Fossil elasmobranchs are exceptionally well preserved in the Late Jurassic Plattenkalk Fossillagerstätten of S Germany (Eichstätt/Solnhofen-, Nusplingen-area) and SE France (Cerin). Fossil collections in the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, München, Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum, Solnhofen, Jura-Museum Eichstätt, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, Natural History Museum, London, Paläontologische Forschungs-, Lehr und Schausammlung, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, and Université Catholique, Lyon document the presence of all major groups of elasmobranchs (hybodonts, squalomorphs, squatinimorphs, galeomorphs and batomorphs) in the Plattenkalk ichthyofauna. Of this material 48 articulated and identifi ed specimens of Plattenkalk sharks and guitarfishes were sampled for dermal denticles and oral teeth. Sampled taxa comprise Hybodus fraasi BROWN, 1900, Notidanoides muensteri (AGASSIZ, 1843), Protospinax annectans WOODWARD, 1919, Pseudorhina alifera (MÜNSTER, 1842), Pseudorhina acanthoderma (FRAAS, 1854), Pseudorhina sp., Paracestracion falcifer (WAGNER, 1857), Heterodontus zitteli (EASTMAN, 1911), Phorcynis catulina THIOLLIÈRE, 1852, Phorcynis sp., Palaeocarcharias stromeri DE BEAUMONT, 1960, Bavariscyllium tischlingeri THIES, 2005, Palaeoscyllium formosum WAGNER, 1857, Palaeoscyllium ? sp., Corysodon cirinensis SAINT-SEINE, 1949, Synechodus sp., Paraorthacodus jurensis (SCHWEIZER, 1964), Paraorthacodus sp., Sphenodus macer (QUENSTEDT, 1851), Sphenodus nitidus WAGNER, 1862, Asterodermus platypterus AGASSIZ, 1843, Asterodermus sp., Belemnobatis sismondae THIOLLIÈRE, 1852, and Spathobatis bugesiacus THIOLLIÈRE, 1852. The extracted denticles and teeth were studied and photographed with a SEM in order to reveal the inter- and intraspecifi c morphological variation of these hard parts. The morphological data are compiled in a catalogue of 100 plates which will serve for a better identifi cation of isolated dermal denticles and teeth of Late Jurassic and other fossil elasmobranchs (found, for example, in washing residues) as well as a database for the study of elasmobranch evolution.
K e y w o r d s : Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes, Neoselachii, Late Jurassic, lithographic limestones, Germany,
France.

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http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/04/Palaeodiversity_4_ThiesLeidner_LOWRESOLUTION.pdf
http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/04/Palaeodiversity_4_ThiesLeidner_HIGHRESOLUTION.pdf

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NEW PAPERS:

FOSSIL

FOSSIL -PAPERS:

CAHUZAC, B. & DUPUY, J.-P. & LAVERGNE, G. & VARONE, G. 2011 Géologie dans le Crétacé de l'Île Madame, Charente-Maritime ; aperçu sur les faunes d'Oursins fossiles. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 146 (39): 329-358

KRIWET, J. & KLUG, S. 2011 A new Jurassic cow shark (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchiformes) with comments on Jurassic hexanchiform systematics. Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 104 (Suppl. 1): 107-114  Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00015-011-0075-z

MÜLLER, M.K. 2011 The fish fauna of the Late Jurassic Solothurn Turtle Limestone (NW Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 104 (Suppl. 1): 133-146 Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00015-011-0061-5

THIES, D. & LEIDNER, A. 2011 Sharks and guitarfishes (Elasmobranchii) from the Late Jurassic of Europe. Palaeodiversity, 4: 63-184

RECENT

RECENT-PAPERS:

BEJARANO-ÁLVAREZ, O.M. & GALVÁN-MAGAÑA, F. & OCHOA-BÁEZ, R.I. 2011 Further observations on foetal abnormalities in the blue shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) from north-west Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e82
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000790

BROWN, S.C. & BIZZARRO, J.J. & CAILLIET, G.M. & EBERT, D.A. 2012 Breaking with tradition: redefining measures for diet description with a case study of the Aleutian skate Bathyraja aleutica (Gilbert 1896). Environmental Biology of Fishes, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-011-9959-z

BUBLEY, W.J. & KNEEBONE, J. & SULIKOWSKI, J.A. & TSANG, P.C.W. 2012 Reassessment of spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias age and growth using vertebrae and dorsal-fin spines. Journal of Fish Biology, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03171.x

CAPAPÉ, C. & REYNAUD, C. 2011 Maturity, reproductive cycle and fecundity of the spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) off the Languedocian coast (southern France, northern Mediterranean). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 91 (8): 1627-1635
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315411000270

DAI, X.J. & ZHU, J.F. & CHEN, X.J. & XU, L.X. & CHEN, Y. 2012 Biological observations on the crocodile shark Pseudocarcharias kamoharai. Journal of Fish Biology, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03177.x

DEL GIUDICE, G. & PRISCO, M. & AGNESE, M. & VERDERAME, M. & ROSATI, L. & LIMATOLA, E. & ANDREUCCETTI, P. 2012 Effects of nonylphenol on vitellogenin synthesis in adult males of the spotted ray Torpedo marmorata. Journal of Fish Biology, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03172.x

DOMINGUES, M.V. & MARQUES, F.P.L. 2011 Phylogeny and taxonomy of Potamotrygonocotyle Mayes, Brooks & Thorson, 1981 (Monogenoidea: Monocotylidae) with a description of four new species. Journal of Helminthology, 85 (4): 353-380
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X10000684

DRIGGERS, W. B. & HANNAN, K.M. & HOFFMAYER, E.R. & JENSEN, J. 2012 Abnormal blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, embryo from the northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2011.01924.x

HEIST, E.J. & CARRIER, J.C. & PRATT, H.L. & PRATT, T.C. 2011 Exact Enumeration of Sires in the Polyandrous Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum). Copeia, 2011 (4): 539-544
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/CE-10-165

HICKEY, A.J.R. & RENSHAW, G.M.C. & SPEERS-ROESCH, B. & RICHARDS, J.G. & WANG, X. & FARRELL, A.P. & BRAUNER, C.J. 2012 A radical approach to beating hypoxia: depressed free radical release from heart fibres of the hypoxia-tolerant epaulette shark (Hemiscyllum ocellatum). Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 182 (1): 91-100
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-011-0599-6

HOFFMAYER, E.R. & DRIGGERS, W.B. & FRANKS, J.S. & HANISKO, D.S. & ROFFER, M.A. & CAVITT, L.E. 2011 Recent occurrences of basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Chondrichthyes: Cetorhinidae), in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e87
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000844

HUNT, J.C. & LINDSAY, D.J. & SHAHALEMI, R.R. 2011 A nursery site of the golden skate (Rajiformes: Rajidae: Bathyraja smirnovi) on the Shiribeshi Seamount, Sea of Japan. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e70
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000728

ISHIHARA, H. & TRELOAR, M. & BOR, P.H.F. & JEONG, C.H. 2012 Comparative morphological study of the egg capsules of skates. Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, in press

JACOBSEN, I.P. & BENNETT, M.B. 2012 Feeding ecology and dietary comparisons among three sympatric Neotrygon (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae) species Journal of Fish Biology, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03169.x

KABASAKAL, H. 2011 On an old record of Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) from the Bosphoric waters. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e61
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000613

KABASAKAL, H. & DALYAN, C. 2011 Recent records of the bramble shark, Echinorhinus brucus (Chondrichthyes: Echinorhinidae), from the Sea of Marmara. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e12
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000108

KUTIL, N. & TAYLOR, D.L. 2012 Mercury bioaccumulation in elasmobranchs. Abstract. Poster. Southern New England Chapter, American Fisheries Society, 2012 Winter Meeting,
Abstract: 19

LAGO, F.C. & VIEITES, J.M. & ESPIÑEIRA, M. 2012 Development of a FINS- based method for the identification of skates species of commercial interest. Food Control, 24 (1-2): 38-43
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.08.034

LASSO, C.A. & ACOSTA SANTOS, A. & AGUDELO CÓRDOBA, A. 2011 Primer registro de la raya látigo o antena Plesiotrygon iwamae Rosa, Castello y Thorson 1987 (Chondrichthys: Potamotrygonidae) para Colombia. Biota Colombiana, 11 (1-2): 173-175

LI, L. & GIBSON, D.I. & LIU, Y.-Y. & ZHANG, L.-P. 2012 Morphological and molecular study of the poorly known species Pseudanisakis rajae (Yamaguti, 1941) (Nematoda: Acanthocheilidae) from elasmobranchs in the Yellow Sea and Taiwan Strait off the coast of China. Systematic Parasitology, 81 (2): 115-123
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11230-011-9331-x

MANJUSHA, S. & KURUP, B.M. & SARAVANNANE, N. & SANJEEVAN, V.N. 2011 Studies on population structure, mortality, growth and exploitation level of smooth hammerhead Sphyrna zygaena (L) (Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae) in the coastal region of Kerala, India. International Journal of Biosciences, 1 (6): 14-26

MELLO, W.C. & DE CARVALHO, J.J. & BRITO, P.M.M. 2012 Microstructural morphology in early dermal denticles of hammerhead sharks (Elasmobranchii: Sphyrnidae) and related taxa. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm), in press

MORGAN, J.A.T. & HARRY, A.V. & WELCH, D.J. & STREET, R. & WHITE, J. & GERAGHTY, P.T. & MACBETH, W.G. & TOBIN, A. & SIMPFENDORFER, C.A. & OVENDEN, J.R. 2012 Detection of interspecies hybridisation in Chondrichthyes: hybrids and hybrid offspring between Australian (Carcharhinus tilstoni) and common (C. limbatus) blacktip shark found in an Australian fishery. Conservation Genetics, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0298-6

O'SHEA, O.R. & THUMS, M. & VAN KEULEN, M. & MEEKAN, M. 2012 Bioturbation by stingrays at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF11180

PÉREZ-JIMÉNEZ, J.C. 2011 Reproductive biology of the cownose ray Rhinoptera bonasus (Elasmobranchii) in the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Hidrobiológica, 21 (2): 159-167

PURIFOY, J.B. & SAFRIT, G.W. 2012 Butterfly rays (Gymnuridae) of North Carolina. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 127 (4): 275-276

SANTANDER-NETO, J. & FARIA, V.V. & CASTRO, A.L.F. & BURGESS, G.H. 2011 New record of the rare ragged-tooth shark, Odontaspis ferox (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspidae) from the south-west Atlantic identified using DNA bar coding. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4: e75
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755267211000698

SANTOS, C.P. & SANTOS, A.L. & CUNHA, R. & CHISHOLM, L.A. 2012 A new species of Heterocotyle Scott, 1904 (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) from the gills of Dasyatis guttata (Dasyatidae) in southwestern Atlantic waters off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Systematic Parasitology, 81 (1): 65-70
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11230-011-9328-5

SCHWARTZ, F.J. 2011 Status of stringrays (order Myliobatiformes) captured 1972-2010 at two sites in Onslow Bay, Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science, 127 (1): 35-37

WEIGMANN, S. 2012 Contribution to the taxonomy and distribution of six shark species (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Gulf of Thailand. ISRN Zoology, in press

WEIGMANN, S. 2011 Contribution to the taxonomy and distribution of eight ray species (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) from coastal waters of Thailand. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Hamburg, 46: 249-312

WHITE, W.T. & LAST, P.R. 2012 A review of the taxonomy of chondrichthyan fishes: a modern perspective. Journal of Fish Biology, in press
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.03192.x

WHITNEY, N.M. & PYLE, R.L. & HOLLAND, K.N. & BARCZ, J.T. 2012 Movements, reproductive seasonality, and fisheries interactions in the whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) from community-contributed photographs. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 93 (1): 121-136
Abstract: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-011-9897-9

ZAERA, D. & JOHNSEN, E. 2011 Foetal deformities in a smooth-hound shark, Mustelus mustelus, from an oil exploited area in Angola. Cybium, 35 (3): 231-236

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