Basking Shark Bibliography

Anonymous. 2000. Parasites Deal With a Nasty Shark Meal. Nat. Geo., 198(1) [July 2000]: Earth Almanac (unpaginated). [Includes fascinating underwater photos by Jonathan Bird showing lampreys attached to Basking Sharks.]

Backus, Richard H. 1966. A Large Shark in the Stomach of a Sperm Whale. J. Mammol., 47(1): 142.

Bass, A.J., J.D. D’Aubrey, and N. Kistnasamy. 1975. Sharks of the East Coast of Southern Africa. V. The Families Odontaspididae, Scapanorhynchidae, Isuridae, Cetorhinidae, Alopiidae, Orectolobidae and Rhioniodontidae. Oceanogr. Res. Inst. Invest. Rep. 39: 31-32.

Bigelow, Henry B., and William C. Schroeder. 1953. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Serv., 53: 28-32.

Bonham, Kelshaw. 1942. Records of Three Sharks on the Washington Coast. Copeia, 1942(4): 264-266.

Cadenat, J., and J. Blanche. 1981. Requins de Méditerranée et d’ Atlantique (Plus Particuliérement de la Côte Occidentale d’ Afrique). Faune Tropicale XXI. ORSTROM, Paris. pp 150-152.

Choy, Barry K., and Douglas H. Adams. 1995. An Observation of a Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, Feeding Along a Thermal Front off the East Central Coast of Florida. Fla. Sci., 58(4): 313-319.

Darling, James D., and Kathleen E. Keogh. 1994. Observations of Basking Sharks, Cetorhinus maximus, in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia. Can. Field-Nat., 108(2): 199-210.

Davis, Chuck. 1983. The Awesome Basking Shark. Sea Front., 29(2) [March-April] 1983: 78-85.

Fairfax, Dennis. 1998. The Basking Shark in Scotland: Natural History, Fishery, and Conservation. Tuckwell Press, East Lothian. 206 pp.

Gilbert, Claire, and Perry W. Gilbert. 1986. The Baffling Basking Shark. Animal Kingdom, 89(3) [May-June 1986]: 34-37.

Hallacher, Leon E. 1977. On te Feeding Behavior of the Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus. Env. Biol. Fishes, 2(3): 297-298.

Harvey-Clark, C.J., W.T. Stobo, E. Helle, and M. Mattson. 1999. Putative Mating Behavior in Basking Sharks off the Nova Scotia Coast. Copeia, 1999(3): 780-782.

Horsman, Paul V. 1987. The Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus: A Species Under Threat? Marine Conservation Society, Herefordshire. 21 pp.

Izawa, Kunihiko, and Terukazu Shibata. 1993. A Young Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, from Japan. Jap. J. Ichthyol., 40(2): 237-245.

Konstantinov, K.G., and G.P. Nizovtsev. 1979. The Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, in Kandalalaksha Bay of the White Sea. J. Ichthyol., 19(1): 155-156.

Kruska, Dieter C.T. 1988. The Brain of the Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus). Brain Behav. Evol., 32: 353-363.

Kunzlik, P.A. 1988. The Basking Shark. Scottish Fisheries Information Pamphlet, No. 14: 21 pp.

Lein, Jon, and Leesa Fawcett. 1986. Distribution of Basking Sharks, Cetorhinus maximus, Incidentally Caught in Inshore Fishing Gear in Newfoundland. Can. Field-Nat., 100(2): 246-252.

Matthews, L. Harrison. 1962. The Shark That Hibernates. New Sci., 280: 756-759.

Matthews, L. Harrison. 1950. Reproduction in the Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunner). Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci., 234: 247-316.

Matthews, L. Harrison, and H. W. Parker. 1950. Notes on the Anatomy and Biology of the Baskng Shark (Cetorhinus maximus(Gunner)). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 120: 535-576.

Matthews, L. Harrison, and H. W. Parker. 1951. Basking Sharks Leaping. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 121: 461-462.

Mutoh, Mitsumori, and Makoto Omori. 1978. Two Records of Patchy Occurences of the Oceanic Shrimp Sergestes similis HANSEN off the east Coast of Honshu, Japan. J. Oceanogr. Soc. Japan, 34: 36-38.

Parker, H.W., and M. Boeseman. 1954. The Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, in Winter. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 124: 185-194.

Priede, I.G. 1984. A Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) Tracked by Satellite Together with Simultaneous Remote Sensing. Fish. Res., 2: 201-216.

Sadowsky, Victor. 1973. First Record of a Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) in the Brazilian Atlantic. Bolm Inst. Oceanogr. S. Paulo, 22: 1-10.

Scott, W.B., and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic Fishes of Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. pp 17-19.

Sims, David W. 1999. Threshold Foraging Behaviour of Basking Sharks on Zooplankton: Life on an Energetic Knife-Edge. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 266: 1437-1443.

Sims, David W. 2000. Filter-Feeding and Cruising Swimming Speeds of Basking Sharks Compared With Optimal Models: They Filter-Feed Slower Than Predicted For Their Size. J. Exper. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 249: 65-76.

Sims, D.W., A.M. Fox, and D.A. Merrett. 1997. Basking Shark Occurrence off South-West England in Relation to Zooplankton Abundance. J. Fish Biol., 51: 436-440.

Sims, D.W., and D.A. Merrett. 1997. Determination of Zooplankton Characteristics in the Presence of Surface Feeding Basking Sharks, Cetorhinus maximus. mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 158: 297-302.

Sims, David W., and Victoria A. Quayle. 1998. Selective Foraging Behaviour of Basking Sharks on Zoplankton in a Small-Scale Front. Nature, 393: 460-464.

Sims, David W., Emily J. Southall, Victoria A. Quayle, and Adrian M. Fox. 2000. Annual Social Behaviour of Basking Sharks Associated with Coastal Front Areas. Proc. Roy. Soc. Biol. Sci. Ser. B, 267: 1897-1904.

Sims, David W., Colin D. Speedie, and Adrian M. Fox. 2000. Movements and Growth of a Female Basking Shark Re-Sighted After a Three Year Period. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 80: 1141-1142.

Springer, Stewart, and Perry W. Gilbert. 1976. The Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, from Florida and California, with Comments on its Biology and Systematics. Copeia, 1976(1): 47-54.

Squire, James L., Jr. 1967. Observations of Basking Sharks and Great White Sharks in Monterey Bay, 1958-50. Copeia, 1967(1): 247-250.

Squire, James L., Jr. 1990. Distribution and Apparent Abundance of the Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus, off the Central and Southern California Coast, 1962-85. Mar. Fish. Rev., 52(2): 8-11.

Stott, F.C. 1980. A Note on the Spaciousness of the Cavity Around the Brain of the Basking Shark, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunner). J. Fish Biol., 16: 665-667.

Stott, F.C. 1982. A Note on Catches of Basking Sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus), off Norway and their Relation to Possible Migration Paths. J. Fish Biol., 21: 227-230.

Templeman, Wilfred. 1963. Distribution of Sharks in the Canadian Atlantic (With Special Reference to Newfoundland Waters). Bull. Fish. Res. Bd. Can., 140: 8-12.

Valeiras, Julio, Alfredo López, and manuel Garcia. 2001. Geographical, Seasonal Occurrence and Increasing Fishing Captures of Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus (Chondrichthyes: Cetorhinidae). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 81: 183-184.

Weihs, Daniel. 1999. No Hibernation For Basking Sharks. Nature, 400: 717-718.