Christian Couch, M.S. Graduated Summer 2024 Email: christian.couch@ufl.edu I am an M.S. biotechnology student in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences. I work on many molecular projects relating to conservation, biodiversity and phylogenetics within Lepidoptera. I am also interested i
assassin fly, Microphontes (Londt, 1994), in which we described four new species from Namibia
Hexanchus griseus This large, deepwater shark is an example of significantly more primitive species found only as fossils. It has a broad, flat head, large green eyes, and a small, single dorsal fin far along its back. Average length is 15 to 16 feet long, and it is gray to olive to brown in colo
In the eastern Atlantic, this shark is found from Iceland and Norway south to Namibia
Carcharhinus brevipinna The spinner shark is a slender, gray-bronze shark named for its distinctive aerial „spinning“ behavior at the surface. When feeding, spinner sharks will often swim through schools of bait fish, spinning along their longitudinal axis, snapping at fish as they move through t
In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, it is found from Spain to Namibia, including the southern
Sphyrna lewini Named for their scallop like cephalophoil (‚hammer head‘) these large sharks are open-water hunters. Using their impressive cranium to detect even the most hidden of prey. Order – Carcharhiniformes Family – Sphyrnidae Genus – Sphyrna Species – lewini Common Names Englis
Mexico and Caribbean Sea; and in the eastern Atlantic from the Mediterranean Sea to Namibia
Adams, D. H., Mitchell, M. E., and G. R. Parsons. 1994. Seasonal occurrence of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in waters off the Florida west coast, with notes on its life history. Mar. Fish. Rev. 56:24-28. Antezana, T. 1977. Tiburón gigante inofensivo capturado en Chile. Museo Nacional
squaloid sharks, Deania calceusand D. crepidalbus, from the southeast Atlantic off Namibia
The University of Florida Herbarium maintains a non-circulating reference library of publications pertinent to the naming and classification of vascular plants (plant taxonomy and nomenclature). The literature in this collection contains descriptions, geographical ranges and keys for differentiatin
Namibia. 421 South Africa. Lesotho.
