Project A5 - Analysis of parasite communities of various shark species
This data describes various acanthocephalan, nematode and helminth parasites identified on elasmobranchs caught between 2015 and 2018 at a number of sites around Australian. All parasite and host data is contained with tables in publications linked to this record (see Supplementary Information and Online Resources section).
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-02-01
Principal investigator
School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University (CSU) - Barton, Diane
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga
NSW
2678
Australia
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Programme
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University (CSU) - Barton, Diane
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga
NSW
2678
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2016-01-01 2019-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (Theme)
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- connectivity
- parasite community
- shark
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- elasmobranchs
- Chondrichthyes
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of Charles Sturt University (CSU) and NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A5.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- Data was sourced from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub – the Marine Biodiversity Hub is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP), administered by the Department of the Environment (DOE).
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- The citation in a list of references is: citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).
- Other constraints
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of Charles Sturt University (CSU).
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Smales, L.R., Barton, D.P. & Chisholm, L.A. Acanthocephalans from Australian elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes) with a description of a new species in the genus Gorgorhynchus Chandler, 1934 (Rhadinorhynchidae). Syst Parasitol 96, 565–573 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-019-09871-x Shamsi, S., Barton, D.P. & Zhu, X. Description and characterisation of Terranova pectinolabiata n. sp. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837), in Australia. Parasitol Res 118, 2159–2168 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06360-4 Moravec, F., Barton, D.P. Description of Piscicapillaria bursata sp. nov. (Capillariidae) and Redescription of Parascarophis sphyrnae Campana-Rouget, 1955 (Cystidicolidae), Two Nematode Parasites of Hammerhead Sharks (Sphyrna spp.) off Australia. Acta Parasit. 64, 429–441 (2019). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-019-00058-4
Distribution Information
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Various elasmobranch species (Chondrichthyes) were surveyed between 2015 and 2018 from 10 localities around Australia. Sharks were collected from a combination of bather-protection gill-net catches and commercial fisheries bycatch and made available for parasite analysis. Some sharks were frozen whole, defrosted and processed, with the digestive system (stomach and spiral valve) removed, bagged and refrozen. Other sharks were processed at the time of dissection. Disection involved opening the stomach and spiral vavle longitudinally to examine for dietary components and parasites. Washings were searched using a dissecting microscope. Collected parasites were preserved in 70% ethanol and examined using light and scanning electron microscopy. Several new species were described and other key species redescribed. See publications associated with this record for full methodological detail.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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561b9715-e63a-4a70-a84a-0a1950caa096
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/561b9715-e63a-4a70-a84a-0a1950caa096
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-29T13:30:20
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-29T13:30:20
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
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Associated resources
Not available