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Shark and ray life history

Colin A. Simpfendorfer A C and Bradley Wetherbee B
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A Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture & College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia.

B Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Woodward 024, Kingston, RI 02881, USA.

C Corresponding author. Email: colin.simpfendorfer@jcu.edu.au

Marine and Freshwater Research 66(4) i-ii https://doi.org/10.1071/MFv66n4_ED
Published: 30 March 2015


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