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<p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span
class=article-headermeta-info-label><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Journal
of Fish Biology<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>

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font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>        
</span></span></span><![endif]><span class=article-headermeta-info-label><b><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0in'>First published:</span></b></span><span
class=apple-converted-space><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span></b></span><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>10 February 2016 <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0in'>DOI:</span></b></span><span class=apple-converted-space><b><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0in'> </span></b></span><span class=article-headermeta-info-data><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
padding:0in'>10.1111/jfb.12874</span></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:19.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1>

<h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.8pt;
margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:19.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Annotated checklist of the living sharks,
batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on
biogeographical diversity<o:p></o:p></span></h1>

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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>S. Weigmann<o:p></o:p></span></h3>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

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<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;background-position-x:
0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;
margin-left:0in;vertical-align:baseline;outline: 0px;background-position-x:
0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An
annotated checklist of the chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, batoids and
chimaeras) of the world is presented. As of 7 November 2015, the number of
species totals 1188, comprising 16 orders, 61 families and 199 genera. The
checklist includes nine orders, 34 families, 105 genera and 509 species of
sharks; six orders, 24 families, 88 genera and 630 species of batoids (skates
and rays); one order, three families, six genera and 49 species of
holocephalans (chimaeras). The most speciose shark orders are the
Carcharhiniformes with 284 species, followed by the Squaliformes with 119. The
most species-rich batoid orders are the Rajiformes with 285 species and the
Myliobatiformes with 210. This checklist represents the first global checklist
of chondrichthyans to include information on maximum size, geographic and depth
distributions, as well as comments on taxonomically problematic species and
recent and regularly overlooked synonymizations. Furthermore, a detailed
analysis of the biogeographical diversity of the species across 10 major areas
of occurrence is given, including updated figures for previously published
hotspots of chondrichthyan biodiversity, providing the detailed numbers of chondrichthyan
species per major area, and revealing centres of distribution for several taxa<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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