Conservation, management and sustainable utilisation of biological resources depend on
the accurate identification of exploited taxa, which emphasises the need for systematic …

DNA barcoding was successfully used for the accurate identification of chondrichthyans in
the Indian commercial marine fishery. About 528 specimens of 111 chondrichthyan species …

Elasmobranchs comprising sharks, skates and rays have traditionally formed an important
fishery along the Indian coast. Since 2000, Indian shark fishermen are shifting their fishing …

The inception of bioluminescence by Harvey (1952) has led to a Nobel Prize to Osamu
Shimomura (Chemistry, 2008) in biological research. Consequently, in recent years …

Elasmobranch remains are quite common in Miocene deposits and were the subject of
numerous studies since the middle of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, the taxonomic …

This paper confirms the new distributional records of four rare deep-water chondrichthyans
viz. sharpnose sevengill shark, Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre, 1788); bluntnose sixgill …

The present paper reports and confirms the occurrence of Rhynchobatus australiae Whitley,
1939, Dasyatis microps Annandale (1908), Himantura granulata (Macleay, 1883) …

Pseudocarcharias kamoharai has been distributed in worldwide but it was rarely noticed in
Indian waters. The present study reported the first occurrence of crocodile shark in Bay of …

The first records of the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus grisues and the bramble shark
Echinorhinus brucus from southern Oman are reported. Descriptions, illustrations and …

A new species of the genus Planonasus is described from off southwestern India and Sri
Lanka in the northern Indian Ocean. The new species occurs along the upper continental …