Complete mitochondrial genome of the gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae)

Growth and life history variability of the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) across its range

For broadly distributed, often overexploited species such as elasmobranchs (sharks and rays), conservation management would benefit from understanding how life history traits change in response to local environmental and ecological factors. However, fishing obfuscates this objective by causing complex and often mixed effects on the life histories of target species. Disentangling the many driver...

On the record of the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus Nardo, 1827 (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in the middle Adriatic Sea

The shark Carcharhinus galapagensis from Salas y Gómez Island, Chile (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae)

This shark has been listed among Chilean species based on Randall and Cea-Egaña (1984), who gave a listing of vernacular names for the fishes of Easter Island (Pequeño 1989). Grove and Lavenberg (1997) record having photographed Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller 1905) at Salas y Gomez Is. There are no data to our knowledge of anyone examining specimens captured at either Easter Is...

Connectivity in grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) determined using empirical and simulated genetic data

Grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) can be one of the numerically dominant high order predators on pristine coral reefs, yet their numbers have declined even in the highly regulated Australian Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park. Knowledge of both large scale and fine scale genetic connectivity of grey reef sharks is essential for their effective management, but no genetic data are y...

Effects of Including Misidentified Sharks in Life History Analyses: A Case Study on the Grey Reef Shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos from Papua New Guinea.

Fisheries observer programs are used around the world to collect crucial information and samples that inform fisheries management. However, observer error may misidentify similar-looking shark species. This raises questions about the level of error that species misidentifications could introduce to estimates of species' life history parameters. This study addressed these questions using the Gre...