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Megamouth Shark - Megachasma pelagios

Family MEGACHASMIDAE - Megamouth Sharks

Resouces from government sites on Megachasma pelagios :

Description Megamouth shark - Megachasma pelagios
A biological profile on the Megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios. Learn it's worldwide
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/megamouth/BiblioMega.htm

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
Bibliography of the Megamouth (Megachasma pelagios). ... Description of a juvenile megamouth
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/megachasma/m._pelagios$narrative.html

ADW: Megachasma pelagios: Information
...pelagios. Megachasma pelagios (megamouth shark). ... Family: Megachasmidae. Genus:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Megachasma_pelagios.html

ADW: Megachasma pelagios: Pictures
...pelagios. Megachasma pelagios (megamouth shark). Information; Pictures;
http://faculty.washington.edu/sisneros/cv.htm

JOSEPH A. SISNEROS
Acoustic tracking of a Megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios: a diurnal vertical
http://faculty.washington.edu/sisneros/publications1.htm

Publications - Sisneros
1997. Acoustic tracking of a Megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios: a diurnal vertical
http://rps.uvi.edu/VIMAS/Megamouth_facts.htm

Megamouth Shark
Megamouth Shark. Megachasma pelagios. Order - Lamniformes. Family – Megachasmidae.
http://psrc.mlml.calstate.edu/lht_litcited.htm

PSRC - Life History Table - Literature Cited
2000. Description of a juvenile megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, caught off
http://psrc.mlml.calstate.edu/enps.htm

PSRC - Eastern North Pacific Sharks
...shark. FAMILY MEGACHASMIDAE — MEGAMOUTH SHARKS Megachasma pelagios (Taylor,
http://id-www.ucsb.edu/lovelab/l_long.html

The Fish List
...(Eschmeyer et al. 1983). Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno and Struhsaker 1983.
http://www.ku.edu/~eeb/faculty/jensen.html

Faculty in Depart of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-KU
On the tapeworms of Megachasma pelagios: Description of a new genus and species
http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/Courses/EEB200/EEB200s01/introductory.htm

Introductory lecture
100 new species of fish named each year: One example: Megachasma pelagios
http://waquarium.mic.hawaii.edu/MLP/root/html/SuggestedReadings/SharksOverview.html

Suggested readings on sharks
...l983. Megamouth - a new species, genus, and family of lamnoid shark (Megachasma
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/bio/tax/Chondrichthyes.txt

Subclass Order Family Genus species Common name Full Finished # of ...
...kamoharai Crocodile shark Mitsukurinidae goblin sharks 1 Mitsukurina owstoni Goblin
http://www.macalester.edu/~sisk/mind/

What's in here?
...once thought to be extinct (eg Latimeria chalumnæ, the coelacanth - see also here),
http://bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Fall%2003%20project/basking_shark.htm

Basking Shark
From the Lamniformes, two distinct families descended, the Basking (Cetorhinus maximus)
http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/asih/sessions/sess-60.htm

ASIH 1997 Joint Meetings - Scientific Sessions
H., Wakisaka, S., Kudo, S., Yano, K. A summary of the freezing, thawing, preservation,
http://collections2.eeb.uconn.edu/peet/participants/jensen.htm



Academic web resources on Megachasma pelagios :

PART I
Alopias vulpinus), oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), cookie cutter
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2000/Acts/Act277_HB1947_CD1_.htm

REPORT TITLE
...oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus 11 longimanus), cookie cutter shark (Isistius
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/RefRpt?search_type=publication&search_id=pub_id&search_id_value=2161

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. ...
...manta, Pacific manta. Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno and Struhsaker,
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=159983

ITIS Standard Report Page: Megachasma pelagios
Go to Print Version, Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno and Struhsaker, 1983 Taxonomic
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=Protein&term=21427308

Entrez Protein
Hsp70 protein [Megachasma pelagios] gi|21427308|gb|AAM53179.1|[21427308]. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=Protein&term=21427312



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