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Squalus

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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are eaten by

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Hippasteria phrygiana (Parelius 1768) (Arctic cushion star)
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Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre 1788) (Kitefin Shark)
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Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre 1788) (Bluntnose Sixgill Shark)
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Echinorhinus cookei Pietschmann 1928 (Prickly Shark)
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Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther 1870) (Bronze Whaler)

are host of

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Squalonchocotyle squali MacCallum 1931
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Calicotyle ramsayi Robinson 1961
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Aega ecarinata Richardson 1898
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Aega ecarinata Richardson 1898
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Aega ecarinata Richardson 1898

are parasitized by

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Pomphorhynchus
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Paracanthocephaloides incrassatus (Molin 1858)
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Squalonchocotyle squali MacCallum 1931
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Calicotyle ramsayi Robinson 1961
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Proleptus robustus (van Beneden 1871)

auditory system

Ladich and Popper 2004
otoliths
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q591800

Definition: Inner-ear structure in vertebrates which detects acceleration and may detect acoustic signals

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eat

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Osteichthyes
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Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque 1810) (Atlantic Little Tuna)
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Ophichthus
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Penaeus notialis Pérez Farfante 1967 (Candied shrimp)
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Harengula jaguana Poey 1865 (Guiana Herring)

hearing range

Ladich and Popper 2004

300 Hz

(max)
Ladich and Popper 2004

40 Hz

(min)

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
hydroxylapatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52255

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH).

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mineralized tissue contains

Mineralogy
hydroxylapatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52255

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the formula Ca5(PO4)3(OH).

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Mineralogy
apatite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52254

Definition: A phosphate mineral with the general formula Ca5(PO4)3X where X = OH, F or Cl

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prey on

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Penaeus notialis Pérez Farfante 1967 (Candied shrimp)

sensory system

Bullock et al 1983
electroreception
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1326528

Definition: detection and measurement of weak electric fields, via specialized sense organs and brain structures that process this information

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sexual system

Fairbairn 2013
dioecious
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681

Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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