... trophic roles of four demersal sharks (e.g., Mustelus mustelus, Mustelus asterias, Squalus acanthias, and Scyliorhinus canicula ) by analyzing ... the main prey resources exist among those sharks. Mustelus mustelus and Mustelus asterias feed mainly on crustaceans, and their diets are very similar. However, Mustelus asterias utilizes a specialist feeding strategy while Mustelus mustelus utilizes a medium-state generalist strategy. Squalus acanthias ... Marmara. • High dietary overlap was observed between M. mustelus and M. asterias . • S. acanthias exhibited the highest ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2021 - Elsevier BV | Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
Ebru İfakat Özcan, Nuri Başusta,
... extremely limited due to the lack of landings. Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of such deficiently known ... determine age, growth, and some reproductive parameters of Mustelus mustelus collected in the Gulf of Iskenderun, the north- ... methods. In this study, a total of 155 Mustelus mustelus were caught in the north-eastern Mediterranean Sea ... new maximum lengths (162.6 cm) for M. mustelus from the north-eastern Mediterranean. The fish studied ... P < 0.05. All studied specimens of M. mustelus represented isometric growth (b = 3). Condition factor ranged ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2018 - Szczecin Scientific Society | Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria
Simo N. Maduna, C. Da Silva, SP Wintner, Rouvay Roodt‐Wilding, Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe,
... regional population genetics of an exploited coastal shark, Mustelus mustelus Simo N. Maduna1,*, Charlene da Silva2, Sabine P. ... structure and demographics of the common smoothhound shark Mustelus mustelus were investigated across 2 major oceanographic barriers along ... the present-day genetic structuring observed for M. mustelus in South Africa. Due to the vulnerable status ... Gene flow · Indian/Atlantic boundary · Interoceanic genetic structure · Mustelus mustelus · Oceanographic barrier Full text in pdf format ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2016 - Inter-Research | Marine Ecology Progress Series
Marcos Rogério Rosa, Otto Bismarck Fazzano Gadig,
Five species of smooth-hound sharks genus Mustelus (Family Triakidae) are know in the western South Atlantic, as follows: Mustelus canis (Mitchell 1815); Mustelus fasciatus (Garman 1913); Mustelus higmani Springer & Lowe 1963; Mustelus norrisi Springer 1939; and Mustelus schmitti Springer 1939. In the present paper, new ... more adequate procedure to identify the species of Mustelus. The labial folds proportions, internasal distance and orbit ... tooth counts not was useful to distinguish the Mustelus species from western South Atlantic adequately, due great ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2010 - | Instituto de Ecologia y Ciencias Ambientales
The relationships of Mustelus species in Australian and New Zealand waters were investigated by analysis of allozymes (28 loci), polymorphisms in the length ... vertebrae counts. We confirm the existence of four Mustelus species in this region: a nonspotted Mustelus sp. A (a single specimen genetically examined from ... Shelf south to Perth—extending its known range); Mustelus antarcticus (from Bunbury in Western Australia around the ... Townsville, Queensland), and M. lenticulatus from New Zealand. Mustelus sp. A was the most divergent of these ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2002 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
Ilaria A. M. Marino, Emilio Riginella, Alessia Cariani, Fausto Tinti, Edward D. Farrell, Carlotta Mazzoldi, Lorenzo Zane,
... basin of the Mediterranean Sea, where the common (Mustelus mustelus) and blackspotted (Mustelus punctulatus) smooth-hounds co-occur. The 2 species ... identification, we performed a morphological identification of several Mustelus specimens to select individuals unambiguously attributed to 1 ... established. All the samples classified morphologically as M. mustelus and M. punctulatus showed a species-specific profile ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2014 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Heredity
Charné Rossouw, Sabine P. Wintner, Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe,
... in three commercially important shark species, common smoothhound Mustelus mustelus, dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus and scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna ... of MP in a total of 60 M. mustelus individuals from six litters, 90 C. obscurus individuals ... 35 and 46% of the litters of M. mustelus, C. obscurus and S. lewini, with corresponding average ... comparatively high frequency of MP observed for M. mustelus, matches what has previously been reported for shark ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2016 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
Edward D. Farrell, Maurice Clarke, Stefano Mariani,
... genetic identification method for Northeast Atlantic smoothhound sharks (Mustelus spp.). – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 561– ... the identification of the commercially valuable smoothhound sharks (Mustelus spp.) in the Northeast (NE) Atlantic. The lack ... set of mtDNA primers for the identification of Mustelus asterias, Mustelus mustelus, and Galeorhinus galeus. The high throughput method allows ... important questions regarding the biogeography of the genus Mustelus in the NE Atlantic.
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2009 - Oxford University Press | ICES Journal of Marine Science
Ali Bougatef, Rafik Balti, Saïda Ben Zaied, Nabil Souissi, Monçef Nasri,
Pepsinogen from the stomach of smooth hound (Mustelus mustelus) was purified to homogeneity by 20–70% ammonium sulphate precipitation, Sephadex G-100 gel filtration and DEAE-cellulose anion exchange chromatography with ... recovery. Upon activation at pH 2.0, M. mustelus pepsinogen was converted to active form in one- ... active pepsin were LLRVPLRKGKSTLDV and ATEPLSNYLDSSYFGDISIG, respectively. M. mustelus pepsinogen, which showed high homology to rat C ... was found in the activation segment of M. mustelus pepsinogen: the Arg-13 conserved in all gastric ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical and Structural Characterization
2007 - Elsevier BV | Food Chemistry
Juan Carlos Pérez‐Jiménez, Oscar Sosa Nishizaki, José Leonardo Castillo Geniz,
A new Smoothhound shark, Mustelus hacat, is described from the eastern North Pacific. Four species of the genus Mustelus had been previously recognized in this area: M. californicus, M. henlei, M. lunulatus, and M. dorsalis. Mustelus hacat is described on the basis of 36 ... trabajo describimos una nueva especie de tiburón Musola, Mustelus hacat, del Pacifico Noreste. Previamente, en esta área habian sido reconocidas cuatro especies del género Mustelus: M. californicus, M. henlei, M. lunulatus, y M. ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2005 - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | Copeia
P Renon, Marco Maria Colombo, Fabio Colombo, Renato Malandra, Pier Antonio Biondi,
... work, the most commercially important Selachian species, smoothhound (Mustelus mustelus) and starry smoothhound (Mustelus asterias), have been identified by polyacrylamide isoelectric focusing ( ... electrophoretic runs, the band patterns of the two Mustelus species were compared with those of dogfish (Scyliorhinus ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2001 - Wiley | Electrophoresis
M. J. Smale, Leonard J. V. Compagno,
... and biology of two sympatric coastal shark species (Mustelus mustelus and M. palumbes) off southern Africa are described and compared. Free-swimming male M. mustelus measured 390–1 450 mm total length (TL), ... crustaceans, although cephalopods became important in larger M. mustelus. There was a good relationship between prey size ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
1997 - Taylor & Francis | South African Journal of Marine Science
... and biology of two sympatric coastal shark species (Mustelus mustelus and M. palumbes) off southern Africa are described and compared. Free-swimming male M. mustelus measured 390–1 450 mm total length (TL), ... crustaceans, although cephalopods became important in larger M. mustelus. There was a good relationship between prey size ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
1997 - Taylor & Francis | African Journal of Marine Science
Daphne Nyachaki Bitalo, Simo N. Maduna, Charlene da Silva, Rouvay Roodt‐Wilding, Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe,
... most affected by fisheries are the common smoothhound (Mustelus mustelus) and the tope shark (Galeorhinus galeus) for which ... this study, the population genetic structure of M. mustelus (n = 105) and G. galeus (n = 124) landed ... Bayesian analysis indicated significant population differentiation for M. mustelus and moderate to high gene flow between sampling ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Fisheries Research
Ilaria A. M. Marino, Emilio Riginella, Michele Gristina, Maria Berica Rasotto, Lorenzo Zane, Carlotta Mazzoldi,
... of multiple paternity in two related viviparous sharks, Mustelus mustelus and Mustelus punctulatus . We first applied molecular methods to assign ... on 19 females and 204 embryos of M. mustelus and on 13 females and 303 embryos of ... occurs in both species, with 47% of M. mustelus and 54% of M. punctulatus litters sired by ... punctulatus female bearing pups sired by a M. mustelus male. The frequency of polyandrous litters in these ...
Tópico(s): Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
2015 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
... relatively small teeth as is the case in Mustelus mustelus. Members of the Mustelus genus (Chondrichthyes, Triakidae) are common throughout the Mediterranean ( ... the eastern Atlantic (13). The smooth-hound, M. mustelus (Linneaus, 1758), is a small, bottom-living shark, ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2009 - | Belgian journal of zoology
Deux especes nouvelles du genre Mustelus Linck, 1790 (Carcharhiniformes, Triakidae) sont decrites du Pacifique occidental central. Mustelus widodoi sp. nov. a ete recoltee sur le plateau continental ... Bali) entre 60 et 120 m de profondeur. Mustelus ravidus sp. nov. a ete recoltee sur le ... ou plus longs que les sillons labiaux superieurs. Mustelus griseus du Japon presente aussi cette caracteristique, mais ... nombre de vertebres precaudales qui est plus petit. Mustelus widodoi et M. ravidus se ressemblent, mais elles ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2006 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Cybium
Emre Yemışken, Joan Navarro, Manuela G. Forero, Persefoni Megalofonou, Lütfiye Eryılmaz,
... and trophic position) of five demersal shark species ( Mustelus mustelus Linnaeus, 1758, Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810, Scyliorhinus canicula ... found in diet of S. stellaris and M. mustelus and the stomachs of G. melastomus , S. canicula ... niche and higher trophic level. In contrast, M. mustelus had the widest trophic niche of the five ... width of S. stellaris was narrower than M. mustelus and S. canicula but wider than S. blainville ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
2019 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Simo N. Maduna, J.H. van Wyk, C. Da Silva, Enrico Gennari, Aletta E. Bester‐van der Merwe,
... histological study of adult female common smoothhound shark Mustelus mustelus demonstrates that the species can store sperm in ... the genetic and behavioural mating strategy of M. mustelus .
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2018 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
Francesco Colloca, Marco Enea, Sergio Ragonese, Manfredi Di Lorenzo,
... three species of commercial sharks, the smooth‐hounds Mustelus spp ., in the Mediterranean Sea were compiled and ... rate of change of two of these species, Mustelus mustelus and Mustelus punctulatus , in four Mediterranean regions. Model results showed ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2017 - Wiley | Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Béchir Saïdi, Samira Enajjar, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradaï,
... 2009. Five species of the small coastal elasmobranchs (Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758), Mustelus punctulatus Risso 1827, Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758), Dasyatis ... was dominated by sharks (90.3%), smoothhound sharks Mustelus sp. being by far the most important (88. ... high density of neonates and small juvenile M. mustelus in the Sfax zone, suggesting that these nearshore ...
Tópico(s): Marine and fisheries research
2016 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ichthyology
Adina C. Bosch, Bernadette O’Neill, Gunnar O. Sigge, Sven Kerwath, Louwrens C. Hoffman,
... are frequently detected in certain predatory fish species. Mustelus mustelus fillets were analysed for 16 metals and three ... parameters were observed; therefore metal accumulation in M. mustelus is mostly independent of size/age. Average values ...
Tópico(s): Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
2015 - Elsevier BV | Food Chemistry
Adina C. Bosch, Gunnar O. Sigge, Sven Kerwath, Donna‐Mareè Cawthorn, Louwrens C. Hoffman,
... acid, mineral and mercury contents) of smoothhound shark ( Mustelus mustelus ) meat. RESULTS Levels of moisture, protein, lipids, ash, ... minimal influence on the chemical composition of M. mustelus meat, demonstrating the feasibility of describing an average ...
Tópico(s): Marine animal studies overview
2013 - Wiley | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Jessica J. Boomer, Robert Harcourt, Malcolm P. Francis, Adam Stow,
The shark genus Mustelus is speciose, commercially important and systematically troublesome. We use a molecular approach combining inter and intra-specific data to investigate Mustelus species in the central Indo-Pacific and Australasia. Our analysis supports two Mustelus clades, one comprising species with no white spots ... propose that some of the difficulties associated with Mustelus systematics relate to a recent radiation, particularly in ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2012 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Béchir Saïdi, Samira Enajjar, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradaï, Abderrahmen Bouaïn,
The diet of the smooth-hound shark, Mustelus mustelus, from the Gulf of Gabès (southern Tunisia, central Mediterranean Sea) was investigated with respect to fish size and season. Stomach contents were ... and females. Ontogenetic changes in diet of M. mustelus were apparent, with crustaceans forming a greater proportion ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2009 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ichthyology
C S Nasin, Janine N. Caira, Louis Euzet,
... collections of Calliobothrium from the spiral intestines of Mustelus spp. led to the discovery of 3 new species: Calliobothrium hayhowi n. sp. from Mustelus antarcticus in Australia, Calliobothrium riseri n sp. from Mustelus henlei in the Sea of Cortéz, México, and Calliobothrium violae n. sp. from Mustelus canis in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean. New collections ... C. evani from the Sea of Cortéz established Mustelus lunulatus as a host for this species. Six ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
1997 - American Society of Parasitologists | Journal of Parasitology
Kent S. Price, Franklin C. Daiber,
... No AccessOsmotic Environments during Fetal Development of Dogfish, Mustelus canis (Mitchill) and Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, and Some ... species of viviparous sharks (Squalus acanthias, Carcharhinus plumbeus, Mustelus canis and Rhizoprionodon terraenovae), Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology ... species of viviparous sharks (Squalus acanthias, carcharhinus plumbeus, mustelus canis and rhizoprionodon terraenovae), Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology ... species of viviparous sharks (Squalus acanthias, Carcharhinus plumbeus, Mustelus Canis and Rhizoprionodon terraenovae), Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
1967 - University of Chicago Press | Physiological Zoology
1. Mustelus canis is an ovoviviparous dogfish in which the young are born with a body length up to ... be produced on the fins of newly-born Mustelus by cutting their nerves, as can be done with the adults.5. A young Mustelus responds to injections of adrenalin by blanching and ... darkening as adults do.6. A newly-born Mustelus shows no evidence of the primary phase of ...
Tópico(s): Identification and Quantification in Food
1936 - Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) | Biological Bulletin
Ivan Jardas, Mate Šantić, Vedrana Nerlović, Armin Pallaoro,
The diet of the smooth-hound Mustelus mustelus in the eastern Adriatic Sea was investigated with respect to fish size and season. Stomach contents of 139 specimens, 67 to 137 cm ...
Tópico(s): Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
2007 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Cybium
Maram Mezhoudi, Ali Salem, Ola Abdelhedi, Nahed Fakhfakh, Mahmoud Mabrouk, Touhami Khorchani, Frédéric Debeaufort, Mourad Jridi, Nacim Zouari,
... to the fillet of the smooth‐hound shark ( Mustelus mustelus ). Moringa oleifera leaf extract was added to gelatin ...
Tópico(s): Food and Agricultural Sciences
2022 - Wiley | Food Science & Nutrition