| an unusual blood sequestering tapeworm (sanguilevator yearsleyi n. gen., n. sp.) from borneo with description of cathetocephalus resendezi n. sp. from mexico and molecular support for the recognition of the order cathetocephalidea (platyhelminthes: eucestoda). | sanguilevator yearsleyi n. gen., n. sp. and cathetocephalus resendezi n. sp. are described from the broadfin shark, lamiopsis temmincki, in malaysian borneo and carcharhinus leucas in mexico, respectively. the new genus is unusual in its possession of internal chambers and channels in its scolex that appear to house extensive quantities of host white and red blood cells, respectively. histology reveals an extremely intimate association between host tissue and the surface of the apical pad of the ... | 2005 | 16019004 |
| ecological drivers of shark distributions along a tropical coastline. | as coastal species experience increasing anthropogenic pressures there is a growing need to characterise the ecological drivers of their abundance and habitat use, and understand how they may respond to changes in their environment. accordingly, fishery-independent surveys were undertaken to investigate shark abundance along approximately 400 km of the tropical east coast of australia. generalised linear models were used to identify ecological drivers of the abundance of immature blacktip carcha ... | 2015 | 25853657 |
| complete mitochondrial genome of the pigeye shark carcharhinus amboinensis (carcharhiniformes: carcharhinidae). | in this manuscript we describe the first complete mitochondrial sequence for the data deficient pigeye shark carcharhinus amboinensis. the mitogenome is 16,704 bp long and consists of 1 control region, 2 rrna genes, 22 trna genes and 13 protein-coding genes with an overall base composition of 31.6% a, 24.9% c, 13.1% g and 30.4% t. the gene arrangement pattern and transcriptional direction were typical for a vertebrate species. the trna-ser2 lacks the dihydrouridine arm and forms a simple loop, t ... | 2016 | 25418619 |
| severe ciguatera poisoning in madagascar: a case report. | in a single outbreak on the east coast of madagascar, more than 500 people, 98 of whom died, were poisoned by the flesh of a shark, carcharhinus amboinensis. from clinical symptoms it can be concluded that this poisoning is due to ciguatera toxins. it is the first case of a severe outbreak caused by a shark, and it is the first case with a mortality rate of 20%. | 1994 | 7725322 |