Description of a juvenile megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, caught off Brazil

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-123

  Amorim, Alberto F ^a   Arfelli, Carlos A ^a   Castro, José I ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESCA   (Brazil)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR SHARK RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranch; Megachasmidae; Morphometrics; New record

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SHARK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CHONDRICHTHYES; MEGACHASMA PELAGIOS; MEGACHASMIDAE;

EID: 0033806392     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007609617773     Document Type: Article

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