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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
(Schlumberger ... enterprising food supplement marketers, who claim that "…sharks don't get cancer" because their cartilaginous skeleton contains factors that inhibit cancer by preventing blood vessels from spreading to ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - The Sharks of the Monterey Bay - Benthic Sharks
Sixgills feed on a wide variety of prey. A diet study of sixgills conducted off southern Africa revealed that the most important prey items include cephalopods, crustaceans, bony and cartilaginous fish ...
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Glossary
Elasmobranch – fish with a cartilaginous, non-bony skeleton (sharks, skates and rays). Ephemeral- Being present only briefly ... fishery. Teleost – fish with a bony skeleton as opposed to cartilaginous fish (elasmobranchs). Total Allowable Catch (TAC) – maximum tonnage, set each year, that may be taken of a fish species within ...
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Marine Vertebrates - MarineBio.org
Myciniform. Class Chondrichthyes This class consists of cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays. These fish do not have ... it is eaten. Cormorants and Anhingas use the hooked bills to puncture their fish. Frigate birds snatch fish from other birds. Flamingos have a beak that can filter small invertebrates, algae, ...
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Keeping Marsupials : Keeping and Breeding Marsupials in Captivity, Maintaining Injured and Orphaned Wildlife in Captivity, Animal Husbandry, Australian Marsupials, Australian Mammals, Marsupial Conservation
HEMICHORDATA (acorn worms) UROCHORDATA (sea squirts) CHORDATA (fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, amphibians) Of these only CHORDATA is of interest ... no exception. Phylum CHORDATA contains seven classes, namely:- AGNATHA (jawless fish) CHONDRICHTHYES (cartilaginous fish) OSTEICHTHYES (bony fish) AMPHIBIA (amphibians) REPTILIA (reptiles) AVES (birds) MAMMALIA (mammals) Of ...
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Beneath The South Pacific Script
The abundance of small fish draws larger fish to the reef, where they circle around trying to catch an unwary lunch. Here ... of the sharks. Sharks, skates and rays are all cartilaginous fish, having a skeleton made of cartilage rather than bone. Because all cartilaginous fish lack swim bladders, they are heavier than water and tend ...
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Endangered Species International
While most bony fish breed by shedding egg and milt freely into the water, all cartilaginous fish reproduce through internal fertilization. In some species ... cartilaginous fish are long-lived (certain marine species more than 100 years) and are slow to reach sexual maturity. Cartilaginous fish are therefore more sensitive to a high fishing pressure than many bony fish ...
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Marine Biological Laboratory
Conch Fishery The warty comb jelly, Mnemiopsis ledyi, is a voracious carnivore, competing with fish for small crustaceans and zooplankton in the European seas. (Credit: Lars Johan Hansson) Full ... how zinc may control the wily glutamate. Using the retina of the skate, a cartilaginous fish resembling a manta ray, they record electroretinograms (ERGs) to measure how retinal neurons respond ...
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Captive shark had 'virgin birth'
Letters journal reports. The type of reproduction exhibited had been seen before in bony fish but never in cartilaginous fish such as sharks. Parthenogenesis, as this type of reproduction is known, occurs when ...
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Endangered Species International
Species Fish Hagfish Lampreys and Cartilaginous-skeleton fishes Sharks, skates, rays, and ratfishes Bony and Ray-finned fishes Fish Decline What can you do to save fish? The Taxonomy of the Fish ... These included the jawless hagfish and lampreys (Class Agnatha), the cartilaginous sharks and rays (Class Chondrichthyes), and the boney fish (Class Osteichthyes), but Class Agnatha was then split into ...
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