Project A5 - Analysis of parasite communities of various shark species

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

This data describes various acanthocephalan, nematode and helminth parasites identified on elasmobranchs caught between 2015 and 2018 at a number of sites around Australian. All parasite and host data is contained with tables in publications linked to this record (see Supplementary Information and Online Resources section).

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Title Project A5 - Analysis of parasite communities of various shark species
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6a60f4d3-e20b-414f-80a1-27328bc738a0
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
dibarton@csu.edu.au
Reference Period 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Project A5 - Analysis of parasite communities of various shark species". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/project-a5-analysis-of-parasite-communities-of-various-shark-species