Bernard Séret (Guest Editor)
Thematic Issue No. 3, Marine Biology Research 6(4), 2010
Overleaf: Head of a 1.8 m female frilled shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884, collected in the North-East Atlantic by a French commercial trawler, and now preserved and held in the collections of the Muse′um National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN 2002-3457). The frilled shark is considered as the most primitive species of the extant shark fauna. It has an eel-shaped body, a lizard-like head and three-cusped teeth like the Paleozoic hybodont sharks. It occurs in deep waters of the oceans, with rather patchy distribution. It is sporadically caught as by-catch of deep-trawling fisheries.
Note: This thematic issue should be cited: Se′ret B (guest editor). 2010. European research focus on sharks and rays. Thematic Issue No. 3, Marine Biology Research 6(4): 339–422.