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New record of the rare ragged-tooth shark, Odontaspis ferox (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspidae) from the south-west Atlantic identified using DNA bar coding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Jones Santander-Neto ,
Vicente V. Faria ,
Andrey L.F. Castro  and
George H. Burgess
Jones Santander-Neto*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Pesca e Aqüicultura, Avenida dom Manuel de Medeiros s/n. Dois Irmãos, Recife, PE, 52171-900Brazil
Vicente V. Faria
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Instituto de Ciências do Mar (Labomar), Avenida da Abolição, 3207, Fortaleza, CE, 60165-081Brazil
Andrey L.F. Castro
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei, DEPEB, Campus Tancredo Neves–Bioengenharia Ecossistêmica, Avenida Visconde do Rio Preto, s/n. São João Del Rei, MG, 36301-369Brazil
George H. Burgess
Affiliation:
Florida Program for Shark Research, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J. Santander-Neto, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Pesca e Aqüicultura, Avenida dom Manuel de Medeiros s/n. Dois Irmãos, Recife, PE, 52171-900Brazil email: jonessn@gmail.com
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Abstract

An unidentified shark carcass (minus head, fins and entrails) was landed in Fortaleza, Brazil following its commercial fishery capture off Ceará State in north-eastern Brazil. The absence of key morphological characters precluded traditional identification, necessitating the employment of DNA bar coding techniques. The obtained 639 nts COI sequence fragment perfectly matched six of seven Odontaspis ferox sequences available on the Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) system database, and was 99.2% similar to the seventh.

Keywords

elasmobranchvulnerable speciesfisheries landingsoccurrence recordOdontaspis ferox
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 4 , December 2011 , e75
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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