Andrew is a post-doctoral researcher in North Carolina focused on population and conservation genetics in hydrothermal vent communities.
David is a graduate student in Florida. He studies the ecology and conservation of sharks. 
Amy is a graduate student in North Carolina studying local ecological knowledge within small scale fisheries. 
Chuck is a graduate student in North Carolina focusing on apex predators and how they interact with fisheries. 
Lyndell is a graduate student in North Carolina, studying the feeding ecology of cownose rays. 
Iris is a graduate student in Washington studying habitat use and feeding habits of juvenile Pacific salmon and herring in Puget Sound. 
Michael is a graduate student in Maryland investigating the visual systems of mantis shrimp. |
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Ratfishes are not elasmobrachs either… just sayin’…
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Ratty just feels left out. Why do y’all always have to exclude him during the holidays?!
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But seriously, strict taxonomy at higher levels is really messy and groups like Holocephali (the sub-class containing Chimeras) is essentially a catch-all taxon that isn’t well supported. I’ve seen plenty of gene trees that support Elasmos and Holos as a single subclass (there’s less diversity between them than there is within other chordate subclasses).
This paper has some nice trees that illustrate that: link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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