Biological aspects of deep-water sharks Centroscymnus coelolepis and Centrophorus squamosus in Galician waters (north-western Spain)

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Bañón, Rafael, Piñeiro-Álvarez, Carmen Gloria, Casas-Sánchez, José Miguel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Pesquerías; Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/7376; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/329165; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315406013774

Biological observations on two deep-water shark species, Portuguese dogfish Centroscymnus coelolepis and leafscale gulper shark Centrophorus squamosus, were made for specimens caught by bottom trawl and longline between 500 and 1300 m depth off the continental slope of Galicia and Galician Bank (north-east Atlantic) in the years 1996–1998. This includes data on their bathymetric range, length distribution, size at first maturity, ovarian fecundity, uterine fecundity and the size at birth. Sí