… areas of study pertaining to sharks and their relatives. I anticipate that every student of this
fascinating group of animals, no matter the stage of their career, will want to own this book. …

… to elasmobranchs or sharks and their relatives. And there are times when we discuss only
skates and rays, given their close relationship to sharks, and when we do this, we usually call …

… sharks, summarising their evolution, body structure, biology, life history and behaviour, and
various aspects of their relationship with humans (eg sharks … food, and their conservation and …

… Due to the difficulty of studying sharks and their prey in their natural environments, most …
summarize the available information on the biology and fisheries of sharks in the Red Sea. …

… We show two major body forms in sharks correlative to their habitat and swimming. … Sharks
are among the oldest vertebrate lineages in which their success has been attributed to their …

… extant species of angel shark, including their morphology and … sharks, and their growth rates
are uncertain (section 3), their … , which can result in biological vulnerability to fisheries. The …

… We aim, through these pages, to spread our enthusiasm for sharks and encourage readers
to improve their future chances of survival by supporting national and international efforts to …

… their biodiversity and shedding light on their … , their phylogeny is still controversial at all
levels, ranging from superorders to genera [24]. A significant obstacle towards resolving their …

… extant or very close relatives of extant taxa. Conservation biologists have used data from …
and understand anthropogenic influence on sharks and their relatives prior to the last several …

… Moreover, their large body sizes restrict sustainable captive breeding, while their high body
… has also limited our knowledge of their chromosomal organization for validation of genome …