Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures
Title
The First in situ Habitat Observations and Images of the Caribbean Roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus Cervigon, 1961 (Squaliformes: Oxynotidae)
Event Name/Location
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-2013
Keywords
BioGeography, Caribbean Sea, Oxynotidae, Oxynotus, Shark, Submersible Observations
Abstract
In situ observations and photographs of the Caribbean roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus Cervigón, 1961, are reported for the first time from four widely separated localities around the tropical western Atlantic, including multiple records over an 8-yr period from a single locality off Roatán, Honduras. These records document an extension of the known geographic, bathymetric, and temperature ranges of the species to include southern Florida and the western Caribbean Sea, over a depth range of 218 to 579 m, and in water as warm as 16.39°C.
NSUWorks Citation
Messing, Charles G.; Stanley, Karl; Reed, John K.; and Gilmore, R. Grant, "The First in situ Habitat Observations and Images of the Caribbean Roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus Cervigon, 1961 (Squaliformes: Oxynotidae)" (2013). Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures. 12.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facpresentations/12
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