Greenland Shark Bibliography

Andriyashev, A.P. 1964. Fishes of the Northern Seas of the U.S.S.R. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem. pp 41-44.

Anthoni, Uffe, Carson Christophersen, Lone Gram, Niels H. Nielsen, and Per Nielsen. 1991. Poisonings From Flesh of the Greenland Shark Somniosus microcephalus May Be Due to Trimethylamine. Toxicon, 29(10): 1205-1212.

Bass, A.J., J.D. D’Aubrey, and N. Kistnasamy. 1976. Sharks of the East Coast of Southern Africa. VI. The Families Oxynotidae, Squalidae, Dalatiidae and Echinorhinidae. Oceanogr. Res. Inst. Invest. Rep. 45: 43.

Beck, B., and A.W. Mansfield. 1969. Observations on the Greenland Shark, Somniosus microcephalus, in Northern Baffin Island. J. Fish. res. Bd. Can., 26: 143-145.

Berland, Bjørn. 1961. Copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Grant) in the Eyes of the Greenland Shark — a Possible Cause of Mutual Dependence. Nature, 191(4790) [19 August 1961]: 829-830.

Bigelow, Henry B., and William C. Schroeder. 1953. Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildl. Serv., 53: 53-55.

Bjerkan, Paul. 1957. Notes on the Greenland Shark Acanthorhinus carcharias (Gunn). 1. The Reproduction Problem of the Greenland Shark. Fiskerdir. Skr. Ser. Havunders, 11(10): 1-7.

Borucinska, J.D., H.E. Whiteley, and G. W. Benz. 1998. Ocular Lesions Associated With Attachment of the Parasitic Copepod Ommattokoita elongata (Grant) to Corneas of Greenland Sharks Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch and Schneider). J. Fish Dis., 21(6): 415-422.

Brummer, Fred. 1972. Encounters with Arctic Animals. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto. pp 240-245.

Caloyianis, Nick. 1998. Greenland Sharks. Natl. Geogr., 195(3) [September 1998]: 60-71. [Includes spectacular images of the living animal in its natural habitat as well as fascinating close-ups of its corneal parasite.]

Caloyianis, Nick. 2000. Arctic Sharks: Adventures with the Greenland Shark. Ocean Realm, Winter 2000: 42-51. [Includes spectacular images of the living animal in its natural habitat as well as fascinating close-ups of its corneal parasite.]

Demel, Kazimierz, and Stanislaw Rutkowicz. 1966. The Berents Sea. The Scientific Publications Foreign Center of the Central Institute for Scientific, Technical, and Economic Information, Warsaw. pp 212-213.

Drainville, G. 1960. Le Requin Somniosus microcephalus dan la Riviére Saguenay. Nat. Can., 87(12): 269-277.

Dunbar, M.J., and H.H. Hildebrand. 1952. Contribution to the Study of Fishes of Ungava Bay. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can., 9: 83-128.

Hansen, P.M. 1963. Tagging Experiments with the Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch and Schneider)) in Subarea 1. Int. Comm. Northw. Atl. Fish Spec. Publ., 4: 172-175.

Herdendorf, Charles E., and Tim M. Berra. 1995. A Greenland Shark from the Wreck of the SS Central America at 2,200 Meters. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 124: 950-953.

Jensen, Ad.S. 1914. The Selachians of Greenland. Mindeskrift for Japetus Steenstrup, 2(30): 1-40.

Koefoed, Einar. 1957. Notes on the Greenland Shark Acanthorhinus carcharias (Gunn). 2. A Uterine Foetus and the Uterus from a Greenland Shark. Fiskerdir. Skr. Ser. Havunders, 11(10): 8-12.

Kondyurin, V.V., and N.A. Myagkov. 1983. Catches of Newborn Greenland Shark, Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch and Schneider) (Dalatiidae). J. Ichthyol., 23(6): 140-141.

Magnússon, Jutta V., and Jakob Magnússon. 1995. The Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Biology of the Deep-Sea Fishes of the Icelandic Slope and Reykjanes Ridge. pp 161-199 In A. G. Hopper (ed.) Deep-water Fisheries of the North Atlantic Oceanic Slope. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

McAllister, D.E. 1968. Poisonous and Venomous Fishes of Canada. Nat. Mus. Can. Nat. Hist. Pap., 42: 2-3.

McEachran, J.D., and S. Branstetter. 1984. Squalidae. pp 128-147 In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.C. Hureau, J. Nielsen, and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean., Vol. 1. UNESCO, Paris.

McGowan, Christopher. 1997. The Raptor and the Lamb. Henry Holt, and Co., New York. pp 85-86.

Raven, H.C. 1926. The Greenland Shark. Nat. Hist., 26(6): 654-655.

Reeves, Randall. 1980. Jaws on Ice: the Greenland Shark. North/Nord, Spring 1980: 32-35.

Scott, W.B., and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic Fishes of Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. pp 33-35.

Templeman, Wilfred. 1963. Distribution of Sharks in the Canadian Atlantic (With Special Reference to Newfoundland Waters). Bull. Fish. Res. Bd. Can., 140: 36-42.

Wheeler, Alwyne. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London. p 72-73.

Williamson, G.R. 1963. Common Porpoise from the Stomach of a Greenland Shark. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can., 20(4): 1085-1086.

 

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