elasmobranch in a sentence

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1. Several early authors believed the frilled shark to be a living representative of otherwise long-extinct groups of elasmobranchs ( sharks, Didymodus ".
2. Sea lampreys parasitize other fishes for their diet, including elasmobranchs such as sharks and rays which have naturally high levels of urea in their blood.
3. Trimethylamine oxides present in ingested elasmobranch blood aid in counteracting the detrimental effects of high urea concentration in the lamprey's bloodstream as it feeds.
4. Fishery data compiled by the Working Group for Elasmobranch Fishes ( WGEF ) show that no angelsharks have been landed in the Northeast Atlantic since 1998.
5. The museum's worldwide holdings of elasmobranchs, particularly squaloid sharks, have grown rapidly in the last 15 years and are an important international resource.
6. Other elasmobranch groups prominently represented include Carcharhinidae, Dasyatidae, Gymnuridae, Myliobatidae, Rajidae, Rhinobatidae, Scyliorhinidae, Sphyrnidae, Squatinidae, Torpedinidae and Triakidae.
7. Braak s early research focused on the neurohypophysial complex of the squaliform elasmobranch " Etmopterus spinax " ( " Spinax niger " ).
8. The size limitations, as well as physiological differences between large elasmobranchs and whales more than likely causes the changes observed in the communities surrounding their respective carcasses.
9. In the wild, albinism is reasonably common in the teleosts, especially the Pleuronectiformes ( flatfish ), however, it is rarely reported in the elasmobranchs.
10. Corpora lutea are found only in mammals, and in some elasmobranch fish; in other species, the remnants of the follicle are quickly resorbed by the ovary.