Nurse Shark Bibliography
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 121-125.
Caira, J.N., and L. Euzet. 2001. Age of Association Between the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, and Tapeworms of the Genus Pedibothrium (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae): Implications from Geography.
Carrier, Jeffrey C. 1991. Growth and Aging: Life History Studies of the Nurse Shark. pp 68-69 In Samuel H. Gruber (ed.) Discovering Sharks. Bull. Amer. Littoral Soc., 19(4).
Carrier, Jeffrey C., and Carl A. Luer. 1990. Growth Rates in the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Copeia, 1990(3): 686-692.
Carrier, Jeffrey C., Harold L. Pratt, Jr., and Linda K. Martin. 1994. Group Mating Behaviors in Free-Living Nurse Sharks, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Copeia, 1994(3): 646-656.
Carrier, Jeffrey C. 1997. First Documented Study of Gestation and Birth of Sharks in the Wild. pp 17-18 In Kohler, Nancy E., Lisa J. Natanson, Harold Wes Pratt, Jr., Ruth Briggs and Patricia Turner (eds.) Shark Tagger, 1997 Summary.
Carrier, Jeffrey C., and Harold L. Pratt. 1998. Habitat Management and Closure of a Nurse Shark Breeding and Nursery Ground. Fish. Res., 39: 209-213.
Casey, John G., Harold Wes Pratt, Nancy E. Kohler, Lisa J. Natanson, Patricia Turner and Ruth Briggs (eds.) 1993. Mating of the Nurse Shark. Shark Tagger, 1993 Summary: 13.
Castro, José I. 1999. Myths and Misinformation About the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. American Elasmobranch Society Abstracts, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylviania.
Castro, José I. 2000. The Biology of the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, off the Florida East Coast and the Bahama Islands. Envir. Biol. Fishes., 58: 1-22.
Hodgson, Edward S. 1971. An Invasion of Sharks. Nat. Hist., 80(10) [December 1971]: 92-102. [Includes results of a study showing that Nurse Sharks consistently out-perform Lemon Sharks in tracking water-borne odors]
Johnson, C.S., B.L. Scronce, and M.W. Mcmanus. 1984. Detection of DC Electric Dipoles in Background Fields by the Nurse Shark. J. Comp. Physiol. A, 155: 681-687.
Klimley, A. Peter. 1980. Observations of Courtship and Copulation in the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Copeia, 1980(4): 878-882.
Kohler, Nancy E., Lisa J. Natanson, Harold Wes Pratt, Jr., Patricia Turner and Ruth Briggs (eds.) 1996. Ongoing Studies: Nurse Sharks. Shark Tagger, 1996 Summary: 15-16.
Miles,, Philip S. 1977. Nurse Shark: Unlikely Terror of the Seas. Oceans, 10(6) [November-December 1977]: 37-38.
Moore, Donald R. 1997. Close Encounters with the Nurse Shark. Bull. Mar. Sci., 60(3): 1015-1016.
Moss, Sanford A. 1972. Nurse Shark Pectoral Fins: An Unusual Use. Am. Midl. Nat., 88(2): 496-497.
Motta, Phillip J., and Cheryl D, Wilga. 1999. Anatomy of the Feeding Apparatus of the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. J. Morphol., 241: 33-60.
Pratt, Harold L., Jr., and Jeffrey C. Carrier. 1995. Wild Mating of the Nurse Sharks. Nat. Geogr., 187(5): 44-53.
Pratt, Harold L., Jr., and Jeffrey C. Carrier. 2001. A Review of Elasmobranch Reproductive Behavior with a Case Study on the Nurse Shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum. Envir. Biol. Fishes, 60(1-3): 157-188.
Randall, John E. 1961. Let a Sleeping Shark Lie. Sea Front., 7(3): 153-159.
Tanaka, Sanford K. 1973. Suction Feeding by the Nurse Shark. Copeia, 1973(3): 606-608
