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Elasmobranchs lack swim bladders, and
maintain buoyancy with oil that they
store in
their livers. Some deep sea
sharks are
targeted by
fisheries for this...
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Elasmobranch cestodes are
parasitic tapeworms (class Cestoda),
which infect elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates).
While elasmobranchs are the definitive...
- The
American Elasmobranch Society (AES) is an
international learned society devoted to the
scientific study of
chondrichthyans (sharks, skates, rays and...
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Sharks are a
group of
elasmobranch fish
characterized by a
cartilaginous skeleton, five to
seven gill
slits on the
sides of the head, and
pectoral fins...
- The New YorkâNew
Jersey Harbor Estuary has a
variety of
flora and fauna. Much of the
harbor originally consisted of
tidal marshes that have been dramatically...
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Aquilolamna is an
extinct genus of shark-like
elasmobranch from the Late
Cretaceous (Turonian)-aged Agua
Nueva Formation of Mexico. It is
currently known...
- of urea and deep-water pressure. Its
presence in the
tissues of both
elasmobranch and
teleost fish has been
found to
increase with depth. The
blood of...
-
genus of
elasmobranch fish from
Montana that
possessed enlarged pectoral fins
similar to
modern angel sharks Bandringa is a
bizarre elasmobranch fish that...
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little urea in
their skin (like many deep sea sharks), but like
other elasmobranchs, have high
concentrations of urea and
trimethylamine oxide (nitrogenous...
- "Shark Lake Challenge". The bull
shark is the best
known of 43
species of
elasmobranch,
across 10
genera and four families, to have been
reported in
fresh and/or...
