Discovery of an important aggregation area for endangered scalloped hammerhead sharks, Sphyrna lewini, in the Rewa River estuary, Fiji Islands

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 242-248

  Brown, Kelly T ^a   Seeto, Johnson ^a   Lal, Monal M ^b   Miller, Cara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diet; index of relative importance; nursery; umbilical scar

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DIET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NURSERY GROUND; RESEARCH WORK; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOMACH CONTENT;

FIJI;

ANGUILLIFORMES; CHONDRICHTHYES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OSTEICHTHYES; SPHYRNA LEWINI; SPHYRNIDAE; STOMATOPODA;

EID: 84982787973     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: 22044604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PC14930     Document Type: Article

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