학술논문
Deadly interaction between a swordfish Xiphias gladius and a bigeye thresher shark Alopias superciliosus.
Document Type
Letter
Source
Subject
*SWORDFISH
*SHARKS
*CORAL reef fishes
*SHARK attacks
*MARINE biology
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Language
ISSN
1341-8998
Abstract
2 Tentative graphical reconstruction of the potential damage inflicted by the distal segment of a swordfish Xiphias gladius rostrum to the anterior-most body including the branchial apparatus of a bigeye thresher Alopias superciliosus. 1 Female bigeye thresher Alopias superciliosus (TL = 445 cm) stranded on the Libyan coast (Mediterranean Sea), with a swordfish Xiphias gladius rostrum embedded deep in the branchial chamber. The cause of the injury in the thresher shark reported here cannot be definitively identified, beyond the fact that the thresher shark was impaled by the rostrum of the swordfish. [Extracted from the article]