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Many thanks to the following people for providing images:

Frederik Mollen (Elasmobranch Research Belgium)  for the images of the Eastern Shovelnose Stingaree Trygonoptera imitata EARSLEY, LAST & GOMON, 2008


Giacomo Schiavon, Italy for providing an image of the Blacktip Shark Rhizoprionodon acutus (RÜPPELL, 1837), Cape Verde Islands, 96 cm TL © Giacomo Schiavon, Italy

 
 
 

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.

At the moment we are looking for some of the following papers:


Extinct Chondrichthyes:
VIGLIAROLO, G. (1890) Monografia dei Pristis fossili con la descrizione di una nuova specie del calcare Miocenico di Lecce. Memoria estratta dal Vol. IV, Serie 2, Append. N°3 degli Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze fis. e mat. di NapoliNapoli Tip. Della Reale Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche diretta da Michele De Rubertis. 28 p.+ 1 tavola

BASSANI, F. (1891) Contributo alla paleontologia della Sardegna. Ittioliti miocenici. Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche di Napoli, 4 (3): 60 p., pl. 1–2

DE BEAUFORT, L.F. (1926) On a collection of marine fishes from the Miocene of South Celebes. Jaarboek van het Mijnwezen in Nederlandsch Oost–Indië: 117–148, pl. 1–9.

MATSUMOTO, H. (1936) Upper Miocene vertebrates from Kumanodô, Natori district, province of Rikuzen. Dobutsugaku Zasshi, 48: 475–480, 5 fig.

DERANIYAGALA, P.E.P. (1937) Some Miocene fishes from Ceylon. Ceylon Journal of Science, 20 (3): 355–367,9 fig.

HANO, V. & SENES, J.A.N. (1953) Spodnomiocenna fauna pri Rapovciach [Die untermiozane Fauna bei Rapovce]. Geol Sbornfk Bratislava, 3 (3/4): 315–362

VAN DEINSE, A.B. (1953) Fishes in Upper Miocene and Lower Pleistocene deposits in the Netherlands. Mededel Geol Stichting N S, 7: 5–12

KUDRIN, L.N. (1957) O nachodkach zubov akul v otlozenijach miocena jugozapadnoj okrainy Russkoj platformy (On some finds of the shark's teeth in the Miocene's deposits in the South-Western border of the Russian platform). Geol. Sborn. Lvov. Geol. Obsc. (Geol. J . of Geol. Soc. in Lvov), 4, Lvov.

BELTAN, L. (1959) Sur la présence du genre Carcharodon Müller et Henle dans le Miocène de la Martinique (Petites Antilles francaises). C.R. Sommaire des Seances de la Societe Geologique de France, 6: 156–158

ZBYSZEWSKI, G. & FERREIRA, O. DA V. (1962) La faune Miocène de l’île de Santa Maria (Açores). Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, 46: 247–289

MENESINI, E. (1967) I Pesci miocenici delle Arenarie di Ponsano. Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali, Serie A, 74 (1): 1–22.

DERANIYAGALA, P.E.P. (1969) A Miocene vertebrate faunule from the Malu Member of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylan, 31: 551–570, 19 fig., 10 tabl.

CAPPETTA, H. (1969) Les gisements de vertébrés de la région montpelliéraine. 2. Gisements miocènes. Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches géologiques et minières, 2 (1): 19–30

COMASCHI CARIA, I. (1973) I pesci del Miocene della Sardigna. Stabilimento Tipografico Editoriale Fossataro, Cagliari. 39 pp.

ALVINERIE, J. & ANDREIEFF, P. & ANGLADA, R. & AUBERT, J. & CAPPETTA, H. & CARALP, M. & CARATINI, C. & CARBONNEL, G. & CATZIGRAS, F. & COURME-RAULT, M.-D. & CHATEAUNEUF, J.-J. & DEMARCQ, G. & DUCASSE, O. & FATTON, E. & GLAÇON, G. & LABRACHERIE, M. & LAURIAT, A. & LE CALVEZ, Y. & LORENZ, C. & MAGNE, J. & MARGEREL, J.-P. & POIGNANT, A. & PUJOL, C. & ROGER, J. & ROMAN, J. & BLONDEAU, A. & MULLER, C. (1973) A propos de la limite oligo-miocène: résultats préliminaires d'une recherche collective sur les gisements d'Escornébéou (Saint-Géours-de-Maremne, Landes, Aquitaine méridionale). Présence de Globigerinoides dans les faunes de l'Oligocène supérieur. Comptes rendus sommaires des séances de la Société géologique de France: 75–76

CAPPETTA, H. (1975) Les Sélaciens miocènes du Midi de la France. Répartitions stratigraphique et bathymétrique. 3ème Réunion annuelle des Sciences de la Terre, Montpellier: 90

INA, H. & ITOIGAWA, J. (1985) Miocene fossils of the Mizunami group, central Japan. 3. Elasmobranchs. Monographs of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 5: 1–99

SHIMADA, K. (1987) [Elasmobranchs from the Early Pliocene Naarai Formation, Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture, and from the Middle Miocene Tokigawa Group, Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan]. Thirtieth Japanese Students Science Prize Complete Works, Japan Home Teacher Center, Tokyo: 354–357 [in Japanese]

NOMURA, M. & HATANAKA, O. & NISHIMOTO, H. & KARASAWA, H. & NANAO NOJIRIKO GROUP (1991) Megasqualus serriculus Jordan and Hannibal (Squalidae: Squaliformes: Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Miocene Nanao Calcareous Sandstone, Nanao City, Noto Peninsula, Central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 18: 33–45

BALBINO, A.C. (1996) Sharks from the Middle and early Upper Miocene from Lisbon, Portugal. A check-list. Comunicações do Instituto Geológico e Mineiro, 82: 141–144

TANAKA, T. & MORI, S. (1996) Fossil elasmobranchs from the Oiso Formation (late Miocene) in the western part of Kanagawa Prefecture. Bulletin of the Hiratsuka City Museum, 19: 67–81

AVERIANOV, A.O. (2000) A new record of Hispidaspis prisca Sokolov, 1978 (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes: Odontaspididae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 8: 349–350

KOZLOV, V.A. (2001) (A new species of carcharhinid shark from the Lower Miocene sediments of Northern Aral region) «in russian». Materialy po Stratigrafii i Paleontologii Urala, 6: 92–95

BOYD, B.M. (2016) Fossil sharks and rays of Gainesville creeks; Alachua County, Florida: Hogtown group; (middle Miocene to lower Pliocene). Florida Paleontological Society, Special Publication

GARIBOLDI, K. & BOSIO, G. & MALINVERNO, E. & GIONCADA, A. & DI CELMA, C. & VILLA, I.M. & URBINA, M. & BIANUCCI, G. (2017) Biostratigraphy, geochronology and sedimentation rates of the upper Miocene Pisco Formation at two important marine vertebrate fossil-bearing sites of southern Peru. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 50 (4): 417-444
 




Extant Chondrichthyes:

SPRINGER, S. (1940) Three new sharks of the genus Sphyrna from the Pacific coast of tropical America. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 1 (5): 161–172

SPRINGER, S. (1940) A new species of hammerhead shark of the genus Sphyrna. Proceedings of the Florida Academy of Sciences, 5: 46–52

BEEBE, W. & TEE-VAN, J. (1941) Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XXVIII. Fishes from the tropical eastern Pacific. [From Cedros Island, Lower California, south to the Galápagos Islands and northern Peru.] Part 3. Rays, Mantas and Chimaeras. Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 26 (3, no. 26): 245–280, Pls. 1–4.

DELSMANN, N.C. (1941) Résultats scientifiques des croisières du Navire-école Belge "Mercator", vol. III, No. 3. Pisces. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, (Ser. 2), 21: 47–82

DEVINCENZI, G.J. & TEAGUE, G.W. (1942) Ictiofauna del Rio Uruguay medio. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Montevideo, (Serie 2), 5 ( 4): 1–100 + index + i–viii, Pls. 1–6

KAMOHARA, T. (1943) Some unrecorded and two new fishes from Prov. Tosa, Japan. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, 13 (17): 125–137

BIGELOW, H.B. & SCHROEDER, W.C. & SPRINGER, S. (1943) A new species of Carcharhinus from the Western Atlantic. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, 22: 69–74

DE BUEN, F. (1950) Contribuciones a la Ictiología. II. El tiburón vitamínico de la costa uruguaya Galeorhinus vitaminicus nov. sp., y algunas consideraciones generales sobre su biología. Publicaciones Cientificas, Servicio Oceanografico y de Pesca, Ministerio de Industrias y Trabajo, Montevideo No. 4: 153–162.

CADENAT, J. (1951) Initiations Africaines. III. Poissons de Mer du Sénégal. Institute Francais d'Afrique Noire. Initiations Africaines. III. Poissons de Mer du Sénégal.: 1–345

DE BUEN, F. (1952) El tiburón vitamínico de la costa Uruguaya, Galeorhinus vitaminicus nov. sp. y algunas consideraciones generales sobre su biologia. Rev. Fac.Hum.Cienc.Univ.Repúbl.Montevid., 7: 87–116

WEIBEZAHN, F.H. (1953) Una nueva especie de Scyliorhinus de Venezuela (Chondrichthyes - Elasmobranchii). Novedades cientificas. Serie zoológica. Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, 9: 1–7.

SMITH, J.L.B. (1958) The mystery killer, the new shark Carcharhinus vanrooyeni. Veld & Vlei, 3 (9): 12–14, 28

CADENAT, J. (1963) Notes d'ichtyologie ouest-africaine. XXXIX. Notes sur les requins de la famille des Carchariidae et formes apparentées de l'Atlantique ouest-africain (avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle: Pseudocarcharias pelagicus, classée dans un sous-genre nouveau). Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (A), 25 (2): 526–537, 9 fig.

CASTEX, M.N. (1963) Una nueva especie de raya fluvial: Potamotrygon pauckei. Notas distintivas Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (Córdoba), 43: 289–294

CADENAT, J. & MAUL, G.E. (1966) Note d'ichthyologie ouest-africaine. XLIII. Description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Apristurus, A. maderensis. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (A), 28 (2): 769–782

ABELLA, A. (1972) Halazgo de una nueva especie de Carcharinus en las costas de Rocha, Uruguay. Boletín de la Sociedad Zoológica del Uruguay, 2: 102–106

GUITART-MANDAY, D.J. (1972) Un nuevo género y especies de tiburón de la Familia Triakidae. Poeyana (Ser.A), 1972 (99): 1–4

GUBANOV, E.P. & SCHLEIB, N.A. (1980) Sharks of the Arabian Gulf. Kuwait Ministry of Public Works, Agracultural Department, Fisheries Division. Sharks of the Arabian Gulf.: 1–69

DOLGANOV, V.N. (1983) Rukovodstvo po opredeleniyu khryashchevykh ryb dal'nevostochnykh morei SSSR i sopredel'nykh vod. [Manual for identification of cartilaginous fishes of Far East seas of USSR and adjacent waters.] TINRO, Vladivostok. Rukovodstvo po opredeleniyu khryashchevykh ryb dal'nevostochnykh morei SSSR i sopredel'nykh vod.: 92 pp.

SHEN, S.-C. & LIU, C.-S. (1984) A new stingray of the genus Hexatrygon from Taiwan. Acta Oceanographic Taiwanica, 15: 201–206

SHEN, S.-C. (1986) A new species of stingray Hexatrygon taiwanensis from Taiwan Strait. Journal of Taiwan Museum, 39 (1): 175–180




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Upcoming Meetings:

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EEA Meeting 2019 in Rende

http://eulasmo.org/blog/eea-meeting-2019-in-rende/

The Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra – University of Calabria (DIBEST), Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori Squali, Razze e Chimere (G.R.I.S.) and the Centro Studi Squali (C.S.S.) are excited to organize the 23rd European Elasmobranch Association Meeting, which will take place in Rende (Italy) from the 16th to the 18th of October 2019.

We aim at creating a great forum where scientists, conservationists, students and all those interested in elasmobranchs will have an opportunity to share the results of their most exciting research, to look for synergies and find new collaborations.

During the conference, four plenary lectures, scientific sessions (orals and posters) and various workshops will take place. The sessions will deal with diverse topics, from evolutionary biology to ethology, from morphology to physiology, ecology and conservation. The conference will also include the Annual General Meeting of the EEA, multiple social activities, and the opportunity of exciting field underwater excursions. English will be the official conference language.

Please come back in the coming weeks to find out all the details about registration and related activities on the meeting’s website at www.dibest.unical.it/eea2019 and on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/eea2019meeting/.

Provisional key dates are:

Call for abstracts and opening of registrations: 15th February 2019

End of reduced registration fees: 15th May 2019

Deadline of abstract submission: 15th June 2019

Communication of acceptance: Before August 30th



Save the date! 25. - 29. March 2019


The Mexican Society of Cartilaginous Fishes A.C., in coordination with the Planetarium of Playa del Carmen SAYAB, invites to participate in the First Latin American Conference of Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras, and the VIII National Symposium of Sharks and Rays.



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5th International Whale Shark Conference (IWSC5) from 28-31 May 2019




From 28-31 May 2019, the town of Exmouth in the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area will welcome delegates to the 5thInternational Whale Shark Conference (IWSC5), a meeting of the world’s leading whale shark scientists, conservationists, natural resource managers and tourism managers. This is the fifth such conference to be held, following on from the successful IWSC4 held in Doha, Qatar in 2016. This meeting is timed to showcase Ningaloo’s world’s best practice whale shark management program and will follow the Ningaloo Whaleshark Festival, an annual community event that celebrates these magnificent animals.
 
IWSC5 will bring together local scientists, researchers and postgraduate students to interact with international colleagues and collaborators to explore all aspects of whale shark biology and ecology and how this can translate to direct, on-ground conservation efforts. Delegates from around the world will be treated to four days of presentations, workshops, social functions and experiencing the world renowned Ningaloo whale shark tourism industry to forge new relationships and collaborations and debate ideas.
 
A core focus of IWSC5 will be bringing together end users of the science being presented, such as tourism managers, marine park managers and conservation groups. This will improve the uptake and application of research and help develop collaborations between research scientists and managers and industry.
 
For further information contact iwsc5@dbca.wa.gov.au. The webpage is under construction, please add to your favourites www.iwsc5.info


THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF XVI EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ICHTHYOLOGY

Dear colleagues,
We invite you to attend the XVI European Congress of Ichthyology, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on 2-6 September 2019. The scientific program will include sessions and symposia on taxonomy, phylogeny, anatomy, ecology, conservation, ethology, life history and other aspects of fish biology. Participants are encouraged to make oral and/or poster presentations. Ichthyologists wishing to organize a symposium on a specific topic are ecouraged to contact the organizers.


ORGANIZED BY: European Ichthyological Society
BOARD: Dr. Ivana Buj (president), University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Jörg Bohlen, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Czech Republic
Dr. Alberto Teodorico Correia, University of Porto, Portugal
Dr. Maurice Kottelat, Delémont, Switzerland
Dr. Lukas Kalous, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Dr. Lukas Rüber, Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland

HEAD OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Dr. Maurice Kottelat
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE will be announced soon.
WEB SITE: http://ichthyology.eu/congresses/actual-congresses/
CONTACT: ivana.buj@biol.pmf.hr (for administrative issues, registration etc.),
mkottelat@dplanet.ch (for technical and local issues, etc.)

CONFERENCE VENUE: All conference activities will be held at the Aquatis Hotel and in
the facilities of the Aquatis Aquarium, both situated in Lausanne, Switzerland. AquatisbAquarium is the largest freshwater aquarium and vivarium in Europe. Lausanne is situated on the shore of Lake Geneva and is recognized as the home of the international sport, hosting the International Olympic Committee, but, in September 2019, it will be the meeting point of European and world ichthyologists.

https://www.aquatis-hotel.ch/en/
https://www.aquatis.ch/en/
https://www.myswitzerland.com/en/lausanne.html

SOCIAL PROGRAMME: to be announced later

CONFERENCE FEE: will be included in the Second announcement
IMPORTANT DATES:
December 2018 – Second announcement released
1st February – registration and abstract submission opens
30th April – abstract submission closes
31st May – deadline for registration
30th June – deadline for the late registration

Looking forward to meeting you in Lausanne!


 
 
 
TAXONOMIC NEWS/ NEW SPECIES


Extant Chondrichthyes:



LAST, P.R. & SÉRET, B. & NAYLOR, G.J.P. (2019): Description of Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov. (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal with a review of its northern Indian Ocean congeners. Zootaxa, 4576 (2): 257–287

New species: Rhinobatos ranongensis

Abstract: A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov., is described from 5 preserved specimens, and images and tissue samples of additional material, collected from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. This species co-occurs in the eastern sector of the northern Indian Ocean with two poorly defined congeners, R. annandaleiNorman and R. lionotus Norman, which have been misidentified and confused with Indo-Pacific congeners since they were first described in 1926. Norman’s species are rediagnosed based on limited new material and a re-examination of the types. In the western sector of the northern Indian Ocean, Rhinobatos annandalei has been confused in recent literature with the sympatric R. punctifer Compagno and Randall, which is represented by four primary colour morphs, including a white-spotted colour morph resembling R. annandaleiRhinobatos punctifer also displays strong intraspecific variability and sexual dimorphism in some body dimensions. These four species of Rhinobatos have unique MtDna sequences and belong to a clade of Indo-West Pacific species that are morphologically similar. Despite the relatively small numbers of specimens available for investigation, these species exhibit some clear differences in body proportions, meristics and squamation. Rhinobatos ranongensissp. nov. differs from its northern Indian Ocean congeners through a combination of a relatively narrow disc and mouth, high vertebral count, long snout, low dorsal fins, and being largely plain coloured. A new lectotype and a paralectotype are designated for the syntypes of R. annandalei, and the four primary colour forms of R. punctifer, the plain, white-spotted and ocellated morphs, are described and the three nominal species rediagnosed. A key is provided to the four known members of the genus in the northern Indian Ocean.



Extinct Chondrichthyes:

 no news this month!
 
Parasites:

RUIZ, C.F. & DRIGGERS, W.B. & BULLARD, S.A. (2019): A New Species of Neoalbionella (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae) from Skin of the Gulper Shark, Centrophorus granulosus (Squaliformes: Centrophoridae) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108 (1): 67-87

New species: Neoalbionella benzipirata

Abstract: Using light and scanning electron microscopy of male and female copepods, we herein describe a new species of NeoalbionellaÖzdikmen, 2008 (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae), Neoalbionella benzipirata n. sp., infecting the skin of the gulper shark, Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801), in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Females of the new species were assigned to Neoalbionella by having 3 setae on the maxillule lateral palp (vs. 2 setae in Lernaeopoda Nordmann, 1832) and a single accessory denticle on the maxilliped subchela claw (vs. ≥2 denticles in Lernaeopoda). Females of the new species resemble those of Neoalbionella longicaudata (Hansen, 1923Özdikmen, 2008 but can be differentiated from them and those of all congeners by having a unique configuration of 16 dorsocephalic sensilla; an antennule terminal segment having 6 apical setae comprising tubercles 1 and 3, digitiform seta 4, 2 subequal setae of complex 5, and flagelliform seta 6; an antenna exopod with a thickened dorsal ridge, smooth (convex) outer surface with 2 short papillae, and rugose (concave) inner surface plus a terminal endopodal segment having a large dorsal hook, medial spine, bifid distal tubercle, and spinulose ventral process; a mandible having the formula P1, S1, P1, S1, P1, S1, B5; and a single pair of anterolateral spines on the mouth cone labium. Males attached to the posteroventral surface of the females' genital trunk were assigned to Neoalbionella by having tapered (not inflated) caudal rami directed posteroventrally. They were differentiated from previously reported congeneric males by having an antennule with the same number and configuration of apical setae as the female; an antenna with a spatulate exopod having minute spinules along its apex plus a terminal endopodal segment with components the same as the female; a mandible with formula P2, S1, P1, S1, B5; a labium with 1 pair of anterolateral spines like the female; and a conspicuous mediative process with bifid tip. Detail of the dorsocephalic shield (in females) and mouth cone labium (in both sexes) previously had not been used to diagnose Neoalbionella spp. We also dissected voucher specimens of “Neoalbionella longicaudata” (collected from gulper sharks in the western Pacific Ocean off Japan by Shiino in 1956), which we morphologically diagnosed as an innominate species, Neoalbionella sp. This is the first report of a species of Neoalbionella from the Gulf of Mexico and the second species of Neoalbionella reported from C. granulosus, a deepwater shark seldom encountered and surveyed for parasitology.


 

MALEKI, L. & MALEK, M. & RASTGOO, A. (2019): Acanthobothrium chabahariensis n. sp. (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) in the cowtail stingray Pastinachus cf. sephen (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Gulf of Oman, Iran. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108 (1): 67-87

New species: Acanthobothrium chabahariense

Abstract: A new species of genus Acanthobothrium Blanchard, 1848 is described from the spiral intestine of Pastinachus cf. sephen(Forsskal, 1775) from Iranian coasts of the Gulf of Oman. The morphological characteristics of specimens were analyzed with light and scanning electron microscopy. Acanthobothrium chabahariense n. sp. is a category 1 species (with <15mm total length, <50 proglottids, <80 testes and a symmetrical ovary) together with 48 other species. The new species was compared with species from the Western Indian Ocean and those reported from Pastinachus. It is distinguished from the other species from the region within the genus by a combination of the following morphological features: total length, number of proglottids, hook length, number of testes and ovarian lobe length. Pastinachus sephen is a complex group still with no taxonomic resolution; therefore, the identity of the host in this study area is in question. Because of the molecular study of specimens from the Gulf of Oman did not completely correspond with P. sephen since they were introduced as P. cf. sephen. This brings the total number of species of Acanthobothrium from Pastinachus to 11 and the total number of Acanthobothrium species described from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to seven. In addition, an identification key to the Acanthobothrium species occurring in the Pastinachus species was provided. 


 

KITAMURA, A. & OGAWA, K. (2019): Three species of Dendromonocotyle Hargis, 1955 (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) collected from Japanese rays. Systematic Parasitology, 96 (2): 233–243

New species: Dendromonocotyle tsutsumiiDendromonocotyle fukushimaensis

Abstract: Eighteen species of Dendromonocotyle Hargis, 1955 (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) have so far been described from elasmobranchs worldwide. In this paper, two new species are described; Dendromonocotyle tsutsumii n. sp. from the skin of the Japanese eagle ray, Myliobatis tobijeiBleeker from Tokyo Bay and the pitted stingray, Dasyatis matsubarai Miyosi, from Ooarai, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, and Dendromonocotyle fukushimaensis n. sp. from the skin of the cow stingray, Dasyatis ushiei (Jordan & Hubbs) reared at an aquarium in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Dendromonocotyle tsutsumii is distinguished from the congeners by the presence of a sclerotised duct connecting the vagina with the seminal receptacle, and De. fukushimaensis by the large body size and the presence of a donut-shaped structure encircling the male copulatory organ near its distal end. Additionally, the reproductive system of Dendromonocotyle akajeii Ho & Perkins, 1980 is redescribed, based on specimens from the skin of the whip stingray, Hemitrygon akajei (Müller & Henle) (syn. Dasyatis akajei) caught in Hamana Lake, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. A key to the 20 species of Dendromonocotyle including the present new species is provided.


 

 

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Extant Chondrichthyes:

AHN, E.Y. & LEE, Y.J. & CHOI, S.Y. & IM, A.R. & KIM, Y.S. & PARK, Y. (2018) Highly stable gold nanoparticles green-synthesized by upcycling cartilage waste extract from yellow-nose skate (Dipturus chilensis) and evaluation of its cytotoxicity, haemocompatibility and antioxidant activity. Artificial Cells Nanomedicine and Biotechnology, 46: 1108-1119  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21691401.2018.1479710
AJEESHKUMAR, K.K. & VISHNU, K.V. & NAVANEETHAN, R. & RAJ, K. & REMYAKUMARI, K.R. & SWAMINATHAN, T.R. & SUSEELA, M. & ASHA, K.K. & SREEKANTH, G.P. (2019) Proteoglycans isolated from the bramble shark cartilage show potential anti-osteoarthritic properties. Inflammopharmacology, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10787-018-00554-5
BAREMORE, I.E. & POLANCO-VASQUEZ, F. & HACOHEN-DOMENE, A. & CASTELLANOS, D.W. & GRAHAM, R.T. (2019) Short-term movement of a night shark (Carcharhinus signatus) in the western Caribbean with notes on the species' distribution and threats in the region. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102 (3): 519-526  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-019-0849-0
BARKER, A.M. & ADAMS, D.H. & DRIGGERS, W.B. & FRAZIER, B.S. & PORTNOY, D.S. (2019) Hybridization between sympatric hammerhead sharks in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Biology Letters, 15: 20190004  http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0004
BECERRILGARCÍA, E.E. & HOYOSPADILLA, E.M. & MICARELLI, P. & GALVÁNMAGAÑA, F. & SPERONE, E. (2019) The surface behaviour of white sharks during ecotourism: A baseline for monitoring this threatened species around Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3057
BECERRIL-GARCIA, E.E. & HOYOS-PADILLA, E.M. & PETATAN-RAMIREZ, D. & GALVAN-MAGANA, F. (2019) Southernmost record of the white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) in the Mexican Pacific. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 47 (1): 190-193  http://dx.doi.org/10.3856/vol47-issue1-fulltext-22
BESSEY, C. & JARMAN, S.N. & STAT, M. & ROHNER, C.A. & BUNCE, M. & KOZIOL, A. & POWER, M. & RAMBAHINIARISON, J.M. & PONZO, A. & RICHARDSON, A.J. & BERRY, O. (2019) DNA metabarcoding assays reveal a diverse prey assemblage for Mobula rays in the Bohol Sea, Philippines. Ecology and Evolution, 9 (5): 2459-2474  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4858
BOLDROCCHI, G. & MONTICELLI, D. & MOUSSA OMAR, Y. & BETTINETTI, R. (2019) Trace elements and POPs in two commercial shark species from Djibouti: Implications for human exposure. Science of The Total Environment, 669: 637-648  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.122
BOUYOUCOS, I.A. & TALWAR, B.S. & BROOKS, E.J. & BROWNSCOMBE, J.W. & COOKE, S.J. & SUSKI, C.D. & MANDELMAN, J.W. (2018) Exercise intensity while hooked is associated with physiological status of longline-captured sharks. Conservation Physiology, 6 (1): coy074  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coy074
CARMO, C.B. & FERRETTE, B.L.S. & CAMARGO, S.M. & ROXO, F.F. & COELHO, R. & GARLA, R.C. & OLIVEIRA, C. & PIERCY, A.N. & BORNATOWSKI, H. & FORESTI, F. & BURGESS, G.H. & MENDONÇA, F.F. (2019) A new map of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) genetic population structure in the western Atlantic Ocean: Hypothesis of an equatorial convergence centre. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3029
CHOI, S. & KIM, S.J. & KIM, E.B. (2019) Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Raja pulchra from Yellow Sea and Alaska. Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources, 4 (1): 384-385  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1547144
CURNICK, D.J. & CARLISLE, A. & GOLLOCK, M. & SCHALLERT, R.J. & HUSSEY, N. (2019) Evidence for dynamic resource partitioning between two sympatric reef shark species within the British Indian Ocean Territory.  Journal of Fish Biology, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13938
DOMINGUES, R.R. & GARRONE-NETO, D. & HILSDORF, A.W.S. & GADIG, O.B.F. (2019) Use of mucus as a non-invasive sampling method for DNA barcoding of stingrays and skates (batoid elasmobranchs). Journal of Fish Biology, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13919
DUCHATELET, L. & PINTE, N. & TOMITA, T. & SATO, K. & MALLEFET, J. (2019) Etmopteridae bioluminescence: dorsal pattern specificity and aposematic use. Zoological Letters, 5: 9  http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-019-0126-2
EGEBERG, C.A. & KEMPSTER, R.M. & HART, N.S. & RYAN, L. & CHAPUIS, L. & KERR, C.C. & SCHMIDT, C. & GENNARI, E. & YOPAK, K.E. & COLLIN, S.P. (2019) Not all electric shark deterrents are made equal: Effects of a commercial electric anklet deterrent on white shark behaviour. PLoS ONE, 14 (3): e0212851  http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212851
ERGUDEN, D. & AYAS, D. & GURLEK, M. & KARAN, S. & TURAN, C. (2019) First documented smoothback angelshark Squatina oculata Bonaparte, 1840 from the North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Turkey. Cahiers De Biologie Marine, 60 (2): 189-194  http://dx.doi.org/10.21411/cbm.a.23607ff9
FENG, M. & BIAN, H. & WU, X. & FU, T. & FU, Y. & HONG, J. & FLEMING, B.D. & FLAJNIK, M.F. & HO, M. (2019) Construction and next-generation sequencing analysis of a large phage-displayed VNAR single-domain antibody library from six naïve nurse sharks. Antibody Therapeutics, 2 (1): 1-11  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/abt/tby011
FERRANDO, S. & AMAROLI, A. & GALLUS, L. & AICARDI, S. & DI BLASI, D. & CHRISTIANSEN, J.S. & VACCHI, M. & GHIGLIOTTI, L. (2019) Secondary Folds Contribute Significantly to the Total Surface Area in the Olfactory Organ of Chondrichthyes. Frontiers in Physiology, 10: 245  http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00245
FOURRIERE, M. & ALVARADO, J.J. & CORTES, J. & TAYLOR, M.H. & AYALA-BOCOS, A. & AZOFEIFA-SOLANO, J.C. & ARAUZ, R. & HEIDEMEYER, M. & LOPEZ-GARRO, A. & ZANELLA, I. & WOLFF, M. (2019) Energy flow structure and role of keystone groups in shallow water environments in Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, Eastern Tropical Pacific. Ecological Modelling, 396: 74-85  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodol.2019.01.004
GAUTHIER, A.R.G. & WHITEHEAD, D.L. & TIBBETTS, I.R. & BENNETT, M.B. (2019) Comparative morphology of the electrosensory system of the epaulette shark Hemiscyllium ocellatum and brown-banded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium punctatum. Journal of Fish Biology, 94 (2): 313-319  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13893
GUTTRIDGE, T. & YOPAK, K. & SCHLUESSEL, V. (2018) Sharks – Elasmobranch Cognition. In N. Bueno-Guerra & F. Amici (Eds.), Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition: A Comparative Guide (pp. 354-380). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108333191.018
HOSEGOOD, P.J. & NIMMO-SMITH, W.A.M. & PROUD, R. & ADAMS, K. & BRIERLEY, A.S. (2019) Internal lee waves and baroclinic bores over a tropical seamount shark 'hot-spot'. Progress in Oceanography, 172: 34-50  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.01.010
JOHRI, S. & SOLANKI, J. & CANTU, V.A. & FELLOWS, S.R. & EDWARDS, R.A. & MORENO, I. & VYAS, A. & DINSDALE, E.A. (2019) ‘Genome skimming’ with the MinION hand-held sequencer identifies CITES-listed shark species in India’s exports market. Scientific Reports, 9: 4476  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40940-9
JUHEL, J.B. & VIGLIOLA, L. & WANTIEZ, L. & LETESSIER, T.B. & MEEUWIG, J.J. & MOUILLOT, D. (2019) Isolation and no-entry marine reserves mitigate anthropogenic impacts on grey reef shark behavior. Scientific Reports, 9: 2897  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37145-x
KIM, S.W. & HAN, S.J. & KIM, Y. & JUN, J.W. & GIRI, S.S. & CHI, C. & YUN, S. & KIM, H.J. & KIM, S.G. & KANG, J.W. & KWON, J. & OH, W.T. & CHA, J. & HAN, S. & LEE, B.C. & PARK, T. & KIM, B.Y. & PARK, S.C. (2019) Heavy metal accumulation in and food safety of shark meat from Jeju island, Republic of Korea. Plos One, 14 (3): e0212410  http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212410
KNIGHT, K. (2019) Hunting great white sharks could motor but prefer to mosey. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222 (4): UNSP jeb199877  http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.199877
LAJMI, K. & GOMEZ-ESTACA, J. & HAMMAMI, M. & MARTINEZ-ALVAREZ, O. (2019) Upgrading collagenous smooth hound by-products: Effect of hydrolysis conditions, in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and encapsulation on bioactive properties. Food Bioscience, 28: 99-108  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fbio.2019.01.014
LAST, P.R. & SÉRET, B. & NAYLOR, G.J.P. (2019) Description of Rhinobatos ranongensis sp. nov. (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal with a review of its northern Indian Ocean congeners. Zootaxa, 4576 (2): 257–287  http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4576.2.3
LOWE, J. & TEJADA, J.F.C. (2019) The role of livelihoods in collective engagement in sustainable integrated coastal management: Oslob Whale Sharks. Ocean & Coastal Management, 170: 80-92  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.10.018
MANUZZI, A. & ZANE, L. & MUNOZ-MERIDA, A. & GRIFFITHS, A.M. & VERISSIMO, A. (2019) Population genomics and phylogeography of a benthic coastal shark (Scyliorhinus canicula) using 2b-RAD single nucleotide polymorphisms. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126 (2): 289-303  http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly185
MARRA, N.J. & STANHOPE, M.J. & JUE, N.K. & WANG, M.H. & SUN, Q. & BITAR, P.P. & RICHARDS, V.P. & KOMISSAROV, A. & RAYKO, M. & KLIVER, S. & STANHOPE, B.J. & WINKLER, C. & O'BRIEN, S.J. & ANTUNES, A. & JORGENSEN, S. & SHIVJI, M.S. (2019) White shark genome reveals ancient elasmobranch adaptations associated with wound healing and the maintenance of genome stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (10): 4446-4455  http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819778116
MARTIN, K.L. & ABEL, D.C. & CRANE, D. & HAMMERSCHLAG, N. & BURGE, E.J. (2019) Blacktip shark Carcharhinus limbatus presence at fishing piers in South Carolina: association and environmental drivers. Journal of Fish Biology, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13917
MATICH, P. & KISZKA, J.J. & HEITHAUS, M.R. & LE BOURG, B. & MOURIER, J. (2019) Inter-individual differences in ontogenetic trophic shifts among three marine predators. Oecologia, 189 (3): 621-636  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04357-5
MOLLEN, F.H. (2019) Making Louis Agassiz’s wish come true: combining forces and a new protocol for collecting comparative skeletal material of sharks, skates and rays, as a comment and an addition to ‘The need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species’ by Guinot et al. (2018). Zootaxa, 4571 (2): 295-300  http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.13
MOREIRA, R.A. & DE CARVALHO, M.R. (2019) Clasper Morphology of the Japanese sawshark, Pristiophorus japonicus Günther, 1870 (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii). The Anatomical Record, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.24082
NALESSO, E. & HEARN, A. & SOSA-NISHIZAKI, O. & STEINER, T. & ANTONIOU, A. & REID, A. & BESSUDO, S. & SOLER, G. & KLIMLEY, P. & LARA, F. & KETCHUM, J.T. & ARAUZ, R. (2019) Movements of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) at Cocos Island, Costa Rica and between oceanic islands in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Plos One, 14 (3): e0213741  http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213741
NAVIA, A. & MEJÍA-FALLA, P. (2019) Checklist of marine elasmobranchs of Colombia. Universitas Scientiarum, 24 (1): 241-276  http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.SC24-1.come
OURY, N. & DUCHATELET, L. & MALLEFET, J. & MAGALON, H. (2019) Isolation and characterization of 29 and 19 microsatellite loci from two deep-sea luminous lanternsharks, Etmopterus spinax and Etmopterus molleri (Squaliformes, Etmopteridae). Molecular Biology Reports, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-018-04578-6
PIROTTA, V. & GRECH, A. & JONSEN, I.D. & LAURANCE, W.F. & HARCOURT, R.G. (2019) Consequences of global shipping traffic for marine giants. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17 (1): 39-46  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fee.1987
RANGEL, B.S. & AMORIM, A.F. & KFOURY, J.R. & RICI, R.E.G.  (2019) Microstructural morphology of dermal and oral denticles of the sharpnose sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo (Elasmobranchii: Hexanchidae), a deep-water species. Microscopy Research and Technique, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jemt.23273
RODRIGUES, A. & RANGEL, B.S. & WOSNICK, N. & BORNATOWSKI, H. & SANTOS, J.L. & MOREIRA, R.G. & AMORIM, A.F. (2019) Report of injuries in batoids caught in small-scale fisheries: implications for management plans. Oecologia Australis, 23 (1): 78–89  http://dx.doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2019.2301.07
SALES, J.B.L. & DE OLIVEIRA, C.N. & DOS SANTOS, W.C.R. & ROTUNDO, M.M. & FERREIRA, Y. & READY, J. & SAMPAIO, I. & OLIVEIRA, C. & CRUZ, V.P. & LARA-MENDOZA, R.E. & DA SILVA RODRIGUES-FILHO, L.F. (2019) Phylogeography of eagle rays of the genus Aetobatus: Aetobatus narinari is restricted to the continental western Atlantic Ocean. Hydrobiologia, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3949-0
SCHLUESSEL, V. & OBER, C. (2018) How to get out of a maze? Stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro) use directional information over landmark information when provided with both in a spatial task. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 19: 619–637 
SILVA, J.F. & ELLIS, J.R. (2019) Bycatch and discarding patterns of dogfish and sharks taken in English and Welsh commercial fisheries. Journal of Fish Biology, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13899
SIMPFENDORFER, C. & CHIN, A. & KYNE, P. & RIGBY, C. & SHERMAN, S. & WHITE, W. (2019) A Report Card for Australia’s Sharks. https://www.sharkreportcard.org/ 
SMITH, M.M. & UNDERWOOD, C. & GORAL, T. & HEALY, C. & JOHANSON, Z. (2019) Growth and mineralogy in dental plates of the holocephalan Harriotta raleighana (Chondrichthyes): novel dentine and conserved patterning combine to create a unique chondrichthyan dentition. Zoological Letters, 5: 11  http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-019-0125-3
SOULEN, B.K. & ADAMS, D.H. & ROBERTS, A.P. (2019) Mercury accumulation, speciation, and temporal trends in Atlantic Stingrays (Hypanus sabinus). Ecotoxicology, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10646-018-02014-w
STILWELL, J.M. & CAMUS, A.C. & ZACHARIAH, T.T. & MCMANAMON, R. (2019) Disseminated lymphoid neoplasia and hepatoblastoma in an Atlantic stingray, Hypanus sabinus (Lesueur 1824). Journal of Fish Diseases, 42 (2): 319-323  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12932
SURIANO, C.M. (2019) Inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor is selectively expressed in cerebellum but not cerebellum-like structures of the elasmobranch fish, Leucoraja erinacea. Heliyon, 5 (1): e01176  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01176
TAGLIONI, F. & GUILTAT, S. & TEURLAI, M. & DELSAUT, M. & PAYET, D. (2019) A spatial and environmental analysis of shark attacks on Reunion Island (1980-2017). Marine Policy, 101: 51-62  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.010
TAMBURIN, E. & KIM, S.L. & ELORRIAGA-VERPLANCKEN, F.R. & MADIGAN, D.J. & HOYOS-PADILLA, M. & SÁNCHEZ-GONZÁLEZ, A. & HERNÁNDEZ-HERRERA, A. & CASTILLO-GENIZ, J.L. & GODINEZ-PADILLA, C.J. & GALVÁN-MAGAÑA, F. (2019) Isotopic niche and resource sharing among young sharks (Carcharodon carcharias and Isurus oxyrinchus) in Baja California, Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 613: 107-124  http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps12884
WATANABE, Y.Y. & PAYNE, N.L. & SEMMENS, J.M. & FOX, A. & HUVENEERS, C. (2019) Swimming strategies and energetics of endothermic white sharks during foraging. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222 (4): jeb185603  http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.185603
YOUN, S.A. & OKINAKA, C. & MATHGER, L.M. (2019) Elaborate pupils in skates may help camouflage the eye. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222 (4): UNSP jeb195966  http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.195966


Extinct Chondrichthyes:

FIALHO, P. & BALBINO, A. & ANTUNES, M. (2018) A Check-List of Fossil Chondrichthyes from Brielas (Langhian, Portugal). N. Vaz y A. A. Sá (eds.). Yacimientos paleontológicos excepcionales en la península Ibérica. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, nº 27. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN 978-84-9138-066-5 © Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, 2018: 157-160 
ŐSI, A. & SZABÓ, M. & KOLLMANN, H. & WAGREICH, M. & KALMÁR, R. & MAKÁDI, L. & SZENTESI, Z. & SUMMESBERGER, H. (2019) Vertebrate remains from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Gosau Group of Gams, Austria. Cretaceous Research, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.03.001
REINECKE, T. & HAYE, T. (2019) Ein Haizahn der scyliorhiniden Haigattung Haploblepharus (Scyliorhinidae, Carcharhiniformes, Elasmobranchii) aus dem höheren Chattium Norddeutschlands. [A shark tooth of the scyliorhinid shark genus Haploblepharus (Scyliorhinidae, Carcharhiniformes, Elasmobranchii) from the late Chattian of Northern Germany]. Geschiebekunde aktuell, 35 (1): 13-17 
SZABÓ, M. (2019) A Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian–early Tithonian) fish fauna of the Eperkés-hegy (Olaszfalu, Bakony Mts., Hungary): the oldest record of Notidanodon Cappetta, 1975 and a short revision of Mesozoic Hexanchidae. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-00368-x
 

Parasites:

DALY, C.A.K. & ORRELL, D. & DA SILVA, I.M. & MACUIO, J.P.F. & HEMPSON, T.N. & ZIEMBICKI, M. & HUSSEY, N.E. & DALY, R. (2019) New host and distribution record of Pontobdella macrothela (Schmarda, 1861) (Annelida, Hirudinea) from a Grey Reef Shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856), in Mozambique, Western Indian Ocean. Check List, 15 (2): 265-268  http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/15.2.265
KITAMURA, A. & OGAWA, K. (2019) Three species of Dendromonocotyle Hargis, 1955 (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) collected from Japanese rays. Systematic Parasitology, 96 (2): 233–243  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11230-018-09837-5
MALEKI, L. & MALEK, M. & RASTGOO, A. (2018) Acanthobothrium chabahariensis n. sp. (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) in the cowtail stingray Pastinachus cf. sephen (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Gulf of Oman, Iran. Journal of Genetic Resources, 4 (2): 114-121  http://dx.doi.org/10.22080/JGR.2019.15565.1120
RUIZ, C.F. & DRIGGERS, W.B. & BULLARD, S.A. (2019) A New Species of Neoalbionella (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae) from Skin of the Gulper Shark, Centrophorus granulosus (Squaliformes: Centrophoridae) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Parasitology, 105 (2): 203-221  http://dx.doi.org/10.1645/18-113
SCHAEFFNER, B.C. & SMIT, N.J. (2019) Parasites of cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) in South Africa - a neglected field of marine science. Folia Parasitologica, 66: 002  http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/fp.2019.002
WARREN, M.B. & RUIZ, C.F. & WHELAN, N.V. & KRITSKY, D.C. & BULLARD, S.A. (2019) Gymnurahemecus bulbosus gen. et sp. nov. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) infecting smooth butterfly rays, Gymnura micrura (Myliobatiformes: Gymnuridae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with a taxonomic key and further evidence for monophyly of chondrichthyan blood flukes. Parasitology Research, in press  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-06202-9

 

MISCELLANEOUS:



How megalodon's teeth evolved into the 'ultimate cutting tools'

Date: March 4, 2019
Source: Florida Museum of Natural History
Summary: Megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived, is known only from its gigantic bladelike teeth. But these teeth took millions of years to evolve into their final, iconic form.



Tunas, sharks and ships at sea

Date: March 13, 2019
Source: Stanford University
Summary: Researchers combine maps of marine predator habitats with satellite tracks of fishing fleets to identify regions where they overlap -- a step toward more effective wildlife management on the high seas.


White sharks have high levels of mercury, arsenic and lead in their blood

Date: March 29, 2019
Source: University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
Summary: Researchers found high concentrations of mercury, arsenic, and lead, in blood samples obtained from Great white sharks in South Africa. The samples had levels that would be considered toxic to many animals.