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An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan

  • 1. Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA. E-mail (DAE): debert@mlml.calstate.edu & Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA. 94118, USA & Research Associate, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa
  • 2. CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research, Wealth from Oceans Flagship, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia.
  • 3. National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung 944, Taiwan; Institute of Marine Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Dong Hwa University. E-mail: ogcoho@gmail.com
  • 4. Hokkaido University, 3-1-1, Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan, E-mail: bxk03120@nifty.com
  • 5. IRD Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, 55 rue Buffon, case postale 51, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France. E-mail: seret@mnhn.fr
  • 6. Hollings Marine Laboratory, 331 Fort Johnson Rd, Charleston, SC 29412, USA. E-mails: nstraube09@googlemail.com (NS), gjpnaylor@gmail.com (GN)
  • 7. Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, n 101, CEP 05508- 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. E-mail: mrcarvalho@ib.usp.br

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Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P., De Carvalho, Marcelo R. (2013): An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan. Zootaxa 3752 (1): 279-386, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3752.1.17

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