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Fig. 3 in Evasive mating behaviour by female nurse sharks, Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonnaterre, 1788), in an equatorial insular breeding ground
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Fig. 3. Nurse shark mating activity witnessed at Enseada dos Tubarões, Fernando de Noronha. The panels depict (I) an aggregation of at least 14 nurse sharks in shallow water adjacent to the shore; (II) a pregnant female shark; (III) a group of 8 female sharks clustering together in shallow waters; (IV) a female shark exhibiting (a) a freshly-inflicted, crescent-shaped bite mark on the left pectoral fin; (V) a female shark exhibiting (b) a freshly-inflicted, crescent-shaped bite mark on the right pectoral fin; (VI) a female shark exhibiting (c) a freshly-inflicted bite mark on the tip of the caudal fin.
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Published as part of Afonso, André S., Cantareli, Carlos V., Levy, Rafael P. & Veras, Leonardo B., 2016, Evasive mating behaviour by female nurse sharks, Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonnaterre, 1788), in an equatorial insular breeding ground, pp. 1-8 in Neotropical Ichthyology (e160103) 14 (4) on page 4, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20160103, http://zenodo.org/record/13331371
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