{"id":387,"date":"2011-05-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svenkullander.se\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2012-07-08T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T20:45:55","slug":"sharks-skates-and-swedish-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svenkullander.se\/blog\/2011\/05\/sharks-skates-and-swedish-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks, skates, and Swedish seas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today is the offcial release day of the 13th volume of the The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna<\/a>, <\/em>dedicated to lower chordates, ie., lancelets, tunicates, hagfish, lampreys and chondrichthyans. It also comes with an introduction to chordates and to craniates, the latter sprawling with colorful dino drawings. Although I am first author, most of this tome is about tunicates with fantastic images from within and without that makes it a particulatly worthwhile reading (and buying, come on it is only SEK 345 and you get the sharks for free!) Thus, tunicate expert Thomas Stach, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, and the late Hans G. Hansson,<\/a> Tj\u00e4rn\u00f6 Marine Biological Laboratory, provided most of the species in this volume. But it also has one hagfish, three lampreys, and 29 chondrichthyans.<\/p>\n

What you will like most about this volume is probably the graphics. For the craniates major contributing artists Linda Nyman and Karl Jilg, guided in the intricate details by Bo Delling,\u00a0 have excelled in creating live-to-touch impressions of fish and the like that few of us have actually seen alive and healthy.<\/p>\n

Given that there already many shark books, not least the excellent compilations by Leonard Compagno, and volumes dedicated to hagfish and lampreys, and of course there is FishBase<\/a>, one might as author feel like facing a table already laid with easily digested goodies. Especially in a species-poor country like Sweden with an ocean part that on a world map looks like you can jump over it to land dry. This is not so. Thousands of fisheries and fish biology papers appear every year, and still nobody seems to know what marine fish eat, how big they get, how they reproduce, how old they get, or even where they occur or what they look like. Nobody even knows which one is one of the biggest skates in Europe, Dipturus batis<\/em>. Honestly, von Bertalanffy curves carry no meaningful biological information.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it was indeed possible to provide details on all the Swedish species of hagfish, lampreys and chondrichthyans.\u00a0 It took six years to complete this volume, but rewardingly for all involved it feels like one has now turned pages entering into a new era of fish information in Sweden with the first real updated national fauna since 1895 in Skandinaviens fiskar <\/em>(Fries et al., 1836-1857; Smitt, 1892-1895), and a worthy replacement to the popular standard V\u00e5ra fiskar (<\/em>Curry-Lindahl, 1985). It summarizes current knowledge and it provides a new platform for ecological and taxonomic research. And yes, of course the ray-finned fishes were not forgotten. They have been worked out in parallel and will be published in a separate fish-only volume to appear in the autumn of 2012.<\/p>\n

The Encyclopedia<\/em> is a project started at the Swedish Species Information Centre in Uppsala in 2001\u00a0 and aims to produce a series of identification handbooks with keys in Swedish and English to the Swedish plant, fungi and animal species. It is a long-term project, aimed at covering the 30 000-40 000 species which can be identified without highly advanced equipment. They will be described in detail, including information on distribution and biology. For most of them, distribution maps as well as illustrations will also be provided.<\/p>\n

With the present volume, there is now a newly published checklist of Swedish lancelets, cyclostomes and chondrichthyans. It is not long, so here it comes before it gets outdated. Species known only from occasional records are annotated. For those interested in Nordic exotisms, you also get the Swedish name.<\/p>\n

Branchiostoma lanceolatum <\/em>(Pallas, 1774) lansettfisk<\/p>\n

Myxine glutinosa <\/em>Linnaeus, 1758 pir\u00e5l<\/p>\n

Petromyzon marinus <\/em>Linnaeus, 1758 havsnejon\u00f6ga<\/p>\n

Lampetra fluviatilis <\/em>(Linnaeus, 1758) flodnejon\u00f6ga
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Lampetra planeri<\/em> (Bloch, 1784) b\u00e4cknejon\u00f6ga<\/p>\n

Chimaera monstrosa<\/em> Linnaeus, 1758 havsmus<\/p>\n

Lamna nasus<\/em> (Bonnaterre, 1888) h\u00e5brand<\/p>\n

Cetorhinus maximus <\/em>(Gunnerus, 1765) brugd<\/p>\n

Alopias vulpinus<\/em> (Bonnaterre, 1888) r\u00e4vhaj<\/p>\n

Galeorhinus galeus <\/em>(Linnaeus, 1758) gr\u00e5haj<\/p>\n

Mustelus asterias <\/em>Cloquet, 1821 nordlig hundhaj<\/p>\n

Carcharhinus longimanus <\/em>(Poey, 1861) \u00e5rfenhaj (single record)<\/p>\n

Prionace glauca<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) bl\u00e5haj<\/p>\n

Galeus melastomus <\/em>Rafinesque, 1810 h\u00e5g\u00e4l<\/p>\n

Scyliorhinus canicula <\/em>(Linnaeus, 1758) sm\u00e5fl\u00e4ckig r\u00f6dhaj<\/p>\n

Scyliorhinus stellaris<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) storfl\u00e4ckig r\u00f6dhaj (two records)<\/p>\n

Hexanchus griseus<\/em> (Bonnaterre, 1788) sexb\u00e5gig kamtandhaj (single record)<\/p>\n

Somniosus microcephalus<\/em> (Schneider, 1801) h\u00e5k\u00e4ring<\/p>\n

Etmopterus spinax<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) bl\u00e5k\u00e4xa<\/p>\n

Squalus acanthias<\/em> Linnaeus, 1758 pigghaj<\/p>\n

Oxynotus centrina <\/em>(Linnaeus, 1758) trekantshaj (single record, actually from Danish Skagerrak)<\/p>\n

Squatina squatina<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) havs\u00e4ngel (single record)<\/p>\n

Torpedo nobiliana<\/em> Bonaparte, 1835 darrocka (two records)<\/p>\n

Dipturus batis <\/em>(Linnaeus, 1758) sl\u00e4trocka (apparently two species involved)<\/p>\n

Dipturus linteus<\/em> (Fries, 1838) vitrocka<\/p>\n

Dipturus nidarosiensis<\/em> (Storm, 1881) svartbuksrocka (single record)<\/p>\n

Dipturus oxyrinchus<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) plogj\u00e4rnsrocka<\/p>\n

Leucoraja fullonica<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) n\u00e4bbrocka (two records)<\/p>\n

Amblyraja radiata<\/em> (Donovan, 1808) klorocka<\/p>\n

Raja clavata<\/em> Linnaeus, 1758 knaggrocka<\/p>\n

Rajella fyllae <\/em>(L\u00fctken, 1887) rundrocka (single record)<\/p>\n

Dasyatis pastinaca<\/em> (Linnaeus, 1758) spjutrocka<\/p>\n

Myliobatis aquila <\/em>(Linnaeus, 1758) (single record)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curry-Lindahl, K. 1985. V\u00e5ra fiskar. Havs- och s\u00f6tvattensfiskar i Norden och \u00f6vriga Europa. P.A. Norstedt & S\u00f6ners F\u00f6rlag, Stockholm<\/p>\n

Fries, B. Fr., C. U. Ekstr\u00f6m & C. J. Sundewall. 1836 -1857. Skandinaviens Fiskar. P. A. Norstedt & S\u00f6ner, Stockholm, IV+222 pp. Appendices 1-44, 1-140, pls. 1-60. Fascicle 2-3 (1837),\u00a0 4 (1840)\u00a0 5, 1839 (p. 111 dated 22 October 1839, ) 6+pls 31-36, Latin text 57-72 (1840), 7+pls 37-42, Latin text 73-92 (1842)<\/p>\n

Kullander, S.O., T. Stach, H.G. Hansson, B. Delling, H. Blom. 2011. Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna. Ryggstr\u00e4ngsdjur: lansettfiskar-broskfiskar. Chodrata: Branchiostomatidae-Chondrichthyes. ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. 327 pp.<\/p>\n

Smitt, F.A. 1892. Skandinaviens fiskar m\u00e5lade af W. von Wright beskrifna av B. Fries, C.U. Ekstr\u00f6m och C. Sundevall. Andra upplagan. Bearbetning och forts\u00e4ttning. Text. F\u00f6rra delen. P.A. Norstedt & S\u00f6ners F\u00f6rlag, Stockholm, pp. 1-566+I-VIII+2 pp.<\/p>\n

Smitt, F.A. 1895. Skandinaviens fiskar m\u00e5lade af W. von Wright beskrifna av B. Fries, C.U. Ekstr\u00f6m och C. Sundevall. Andra upplagan. Bearbetning och forts\u00e4ttning.Text. Senare delen.. P.A. Norstedt & S\u00f6ners F\u00f6rlag, Stockholm, pp 567-1239+1 p.<\/p>\n

Smitt, F.A. 1895. Skandinaviens fiskar m\u00e5lade af W. von Wright beskrifna av B. Fries, C.U. Ekstr\u00f6m och C. Sundevall. Andra upplagan. Bearbetning och forts\u00e4ttning. Taflor.\u00a0 P.A. Norstedt & S\u00f6ners F\u00f6rlag, Stockholm, pls I-LIII, pp. I-III.<\/p>\n

\"Amblyraja<\/a>

Amblyraja radiata, from Fries et al.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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