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Deep Fried Sea: Shark Week?

Posted on August 1, 2011August 1, 2011 By Andrew Thaler 3 Comments on Deep Fried Sea: Shark Week?
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3 thoughts on “Deep Fried Sea: Shark Week?”

  1. Fatecious shark geek says:
    August 1, 2011 at 6:54 pm

    Ratfishes are not elasmobrachs either… just sayin’…

  2. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    August 1, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Ratty just feels left out. Why do y’all always have to exclude him during the holidays?!

  3. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    August 1, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    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: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jez.b.21293/pdf

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