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Jürgen Pollerspöck, Benediktinerring 34, D-94569 Stephansposching, Germany (2009-2014)

Jürgen Pollerspöck, Benediktinerring 34, D-94569 Stephansposching, Germany & Nicolas Straube, Munich, Germany (2015-)

Title: Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichtyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) - ISSN: 2195-6499

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Ng, S.-L., Straube, N., Liu, K.-M. & Joung, S.-J. (2025): Confusions across the hemispheres: Taxonomic re-evaluation of two lanternshark species, Etmopterus lucifer and E. molleri (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae). Vertebrate Zoology, 75, 59-86 DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e126067

Klöcker, C.A., Schlindwein, A.. Arostegui, M.C.. Bruvold, I.M.. Wernström, J.V.. Martin-Armas, M.. Sims, D.W.. Straube, N., Altenburger, A. & Junge, C. (2025): Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus). Journal of Fish Biology, in press DOI: 10.1111/jfb.70052

Nielsen, J., Christiansen, J.S., Præbel, K., Møller, P.R., Devine, B., Jakobsdóttir, K., Straube, N., Nogueira, A., Treble, M., Hedges, K., Atchison, S., Ofstad, L.H., Junge, C., Wheeland, L. & Hedeholm, R. (2025): Spatial Distribution of Greenland Shark Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Life Stages Across the Northern North Atlantic. Ecology and Evolution, 15(7), Article e71564
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71564

Feichtinger, I., Weinmann, A.E., Harzhauser, M., Schwarzhans, W., Golebiowski, R., Pollerspöck, J. (2025): Deep-marine elasmobranchs from the Badenian (Langhian, Middle Miocene) of the Central Paratethys of Austria. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 118, 205–217 https://doi.org/10.17738/ajes.2025.0012

McCormack, J., Feichtinger, I., Fuller, B.T., Jaouen, K., Griffiths, M.L., Bourgon, N., Maisch, H., Becker, M.A., Pollerspöck, J., Hampe, O., Rössner, G.E., Assemat, A., Müller, W., Shimada, K. (2025). Miocene marine vertebrate trophic ecology reveals megatooth sharks as opportunistic supercarnivores. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 664, Article 119392 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119392

Torralba Sáez, M., Hofreiter, M. & Straube, N. (2024): Shark genome size evolution and its relationship with cellular, life-history, ecological, and diversity traits. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 8909
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59202-4

Weigmann, S., Didier, D., Finucci, B., Naylor, G.J.P., Séret, B., Straube, N. & Vaz, D.F.B. (2024): 2 | Biodiversity, Taxonomy, and Systematics. In R.W. Jabado, A.Z.A. Morata, R.H. Bennett, B. Finucci, J.R. Ellis, S. Fowler, M.I. Grant &. A.P. Barbosa Martins, S.L. Sinclair (Eds.), The global status of sharks, rays, and chimaeras (pp. 5–28). International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
DOI: 10.59216/ssg.gsrsrc.2024

Pollerspöck, J. & Shimada, K. (2024). The first recognition of the enigmatic fossil shark genus Megalolamna (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene of Europe and M. serotinus (Probst, 1879) as the newly designated type species for the genus. Zitteliana, 98, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.98.131387

Feichtinger, I., Pollerspöck, J., Harzhauser, M., Auer, G., Kranner, M., Guinot, G. (2024). Elasmobranch assemblages from a bathyal environment spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in Austria. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 117(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.17738/ajes.2024.0001

Feichtinger, I., Pollerspöck, J., Harzhauser, M., Auer, G., Ćorić, S., Kranner, M., Beaury, B., Guinot, G. (2024). Earliest Danian outer neritic elasmobranch assemblages reveal an environmentally controlled faunal turnover at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the northern Tethyan Realm (Austria). Papers in Palaeontology, 10(1), Article e1547. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/spp2.1547

Staggl, M.A., Ruthensteiner, B. & Straube, N. (2023): Head anatomy of a lantern shark wet-collection specimen (Chondrichthyes: Etmopteridae). Journal of Anatomy, 242(5), 872–890

Pollerspöck, J., Cares, D., Ebert, D.A., Kelley, K.A., Pockalny, R., Robinson, R.S., Wagner, D. & Straube, N. (2023): First in situ documentation of a fossil tooth of the megatooth shark Otodus (Megaselachus) megalodon from the deep sea in the Pacific Ocean. Historical Biology, 37(1), 120–125.
doi:10.1080/08912963.2023.2291771

Pollerspöck, J., Nielsen, K.A., Feichtinger, I. & Straube, N. (2023): New records of fossil deep-sea shark teeth from the Lillebælt Clay (Early–Middle Eocene) of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 72, 153–173

Pollerspöck, J. & Weigmann, S. & Seret, B. & Straube, N. (2023): Comment on “4.4 First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae) in the Mediterranean Sea” by Athanasios Anastasiadis, Evangelos Papadimitriou and Frithjof C. Küpper in: Kousteni, V., Anastasiadis, A., Bariche, M., Battaglia, P., Bonifazi, A. et al. (2022). New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022). Mediterranean Marine Science, 23 (3), 417-446 Mediterranean Marine Science, 24(1), 101–103

Agne, S., Naylor, G.J.P., Preick, M., Yang, L., Thiel, R., Weigmann, S., Paijmans, J.L.A., Barlow, A., Hofreiter, M. & Straube, N. (2022): Taxonomic Identification of Two Poorly Known Lantern Shark Species Based on Mitochondrial DNA From Wet-Collection Paratypes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, Article fevo.2022.910009. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.910009

Villate-Moreno, M., Cubillos-M, J.C., Stibor, H., Crawford, A.J. & Straube, N. (2022): Molecular identification and first demographic insights of sharks based on artisanal fisheries bycatch in the Pacific Coast of Colombia: implications for conservation. PeerJ, 10, Article e13478 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13478

Lourtie, A., Duchatelet, L., Straube, N., Puozzo, N., Grace, M., Naylor, G.J.P. & Delroisse, J. (2022): Placoid scales in bioluminescent sharks: Scaling their evolution using morphology and elemental composition. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, Article 908237 DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.908237

Agne, S., Straube, N., Preick, M. & Hofreiter, M. (2022): Simultaneous barcode sequencing of diverse museum collection specimens using a mixed RNA bait set. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, Article 909846 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.909846

Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2022): Aging dried shark specimens used as decorative objects [Abstract]. 1st ICAZ Medieval Period Working Group Meeting (28.09.2022-30.09.2022, Bryggens Museum - Bymuseet, Bergen)

Feichtinger, I. & Guinot, G. & Straube, N. & Harzhauser, M. & Auer, G. & Ćorić, S. & Kranner, M. & Schellhorn, S. & Ladwig, J. & Thies, D. & Pollerspöck, J. (2022): Revision of the Cretaceous shark Protoxynotus (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes) and early evolution of somniosid sharks. Cretaceous Research, 140, Article 105331

McCormack, J. & Griffiths, M.L. & Kim, S.L. & Shimada, K. & Karnes, M. & Maisch, H. & Pederzani, S. & Bourgon, N. & Jaouen, K. & Becker, M.A. & Jöns, N. & Sisma-Ventura, G. & Straube, N. & Pollerspöck, J. & Hublin, J.-J. & Eagle, R.A. & Tütken, T. (2022): Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes. Nature Communications, 13, Article 2980

Pollerspöck, J. & Güthner, T. & Straube, N. (2022): Re-evaluation of the Lower Miocene (Burdigalian, Ottnangian) elasmobranch fauna (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) from Upper Austria (Allerding, near Schärding, Austria) with comments on the paleogeographic distribution of the recorded squaliform sharks. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Series A, 122, 87–163

Straube, N., Lyra, M.L., Paijmans, J.L.A., Preick, M., Basler, N., Penner, J., Rödel, M.-O., Westbury, M.V., Haddad, C.F.B., Barlow, A. & Hofreiter, M. (2021): Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens. Molecular Ecology Resources, 21(7), 2299–2315 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13433

Straube, N., Preick, M., Naylor, G.J.P. & Hofreiter, M. (2021): Mitochondrial DNA sequencing of a wet-collection syntype demonstrates the importance of type material as genetic resource for lantern shark taxonomy (Chondrichthyes: Etmopteridae). Royal Society Open Science, 8(9), Article 210474
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210474

Feichtinger, I., Adnet, S., Cuny, G., Guinot, G., Kriwet, J., Neubauer, T.A., Pollerspöck, J., Shimada, K., Straube, N., Underwood, C., Vullo, R. & Harzhauser, M. (2021): Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks”. Science, 374(6573), Article abk0632

Pollerspöck, J., Beaury, B., Straube, N. & Feichtinger, I. (2021): Oldest evidence of the genus Squalus in the north alpine realm with remarks on its evolution and distribution through time. Paleoichthys, 2, 1–9

Pollerspöck, J. & Bauernfeind, R. (2021): Die Haie von Pfreimd. Der Stadtturm, 37, 89–106

Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2021): Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichtyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) - List of Valid Extant Species; List of Described Extant Species; Statistic -, www.shark-references.com, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 03/2021; ISSN: 2195-6499

Villate-Moreno, M., Pollerspöck, J., Kremer-Obrock, F. & Straube, N. (2021): Molecular analyses of confiscated shark fins reveal shortcomings of CITES implementations in Germany. Conservation Science and Practice, 3 (6): e398

Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2020): An identification key to elasmobranch species based on dental morphological characters. Part B: extant Lamniform sharks (Superorder Galeomorphii: Order Lamniformes). Bulletin of Fish Biology, 19 (1/2): 27-64

Feichtinger, I., Pollerspöck, J. & Harzhauser, M. (2020): A new species of the enigmatic shark genus Nanocetorhinus (Chondrichthyes) from the Oligocene of Austria with palaeoceanographic implications. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 113 (1): 229 - 236

Straube, N. & Pollerspöck, J. (2020): Intraspecific dental variations in the deep-sea shark Etmopterus spinax and their significance in the fossil record. Zoomorphology, 139 (4): 483–491

Villafaña, J.A., Marramà, G., Klug, S., Pollerspöck, J., Balsberger, M., Rivadeneira, M. & Kriwet, J. (2020): Sharks, rays and skates (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Marine Molasse (middle Burdigalian, early Miocene) of the Simssee area (Bavaria, Germany), with comments on palaeogeographic and ecological patterns. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 94: 725-757

Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2019): An identification key to elasmobranch genera based on dental morphological characters Part A: Squalomorph sharks (Superorder Squalomorphii). Bulletin of Fish Biology, 18 (1/2): 77-105

Barcelos, L.M.D., Azeved, J.M.N., Pollerspöck, J. & Barreiros, J.P. (2018): Review of the records of the smalltooth sand tiger shark, Odontaspis ferox (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes: Odontaspididae), in the Azores. Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria, 48 (2): 189–194

Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2017): A new deep-sea elasmobranch fauna from the Central Paratethys (Neuhofener Beds, Mitterdorf, near Passau, Germany, Early Miocene, Middle Burdigalian).
Zitteliana, 90: 27-53

Claes, J.M., Nilsson, D.-E., Mallefet, J. & Straube, N. (2015): The presence of lateral photophores correlates with increased speciation in deep-sea bioluminescent sharks. Royal Society Open Science, 2, Article 150219
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150219

Straube, N., Li, C., Claes, J.M., Corrigan, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2015): Molecular phylogeny of Squaliformes and first occurrence of bioluminescence in sharks. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, Article 162
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0446-6

Li, C., Corrigan, S., Yang, L., Straube, N., Harris, M., Hofreiter, M., White, W.T. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2015):
DNA capture reveals transoceanic gene flow in endangered river sharks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(43), 13302–13307
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508735112

Pollerspöck, J. & Beaury, B. 2014 Parasquatina zitteli nov. sp. (Elasmobranchii: Orectolobiformes) aus dem Maastricht von Oberbayern (Gerhartsreiter Schichten, Siegsdorf) und Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung der Ordnung Orectolobiformes.
Zitteliana, A54: 147-164

Pollerspöck, J. & Beaury, B. 2014 Eine Elasmobranchierfauna (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) aus der Oberen Meeresmolasse (Ottnangium, Unteres Miozän) des Heigelsberger Grabens bei Teisendorf, Oberbayern. [A Miocene elasmobranch fauna (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) from the Upper Marine Molasse of Upper Bavaria (Heigelsberger Ditch, Teisendorf, Bavaria)]. Zitteliana, A54: 23-37

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