Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

References that assist with identification

  • Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene (1990). Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Other references

  • Coetzee, M.L., N.J. Smit, A.S. Grutter and A.J. Davies (2008). A new gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing two species of requiem sharks from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Journal of Parasitology, 94: 608-615. LIRS catalog number 1136.
  • Coetzee, M.L., N.J. Smit, A.S. Grutter and A.J. Davies (2009). Gnathia trimaculata n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae), an ectoparasite found parasitising requiem sharks from off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Systematic Parasitology, 72: 97-112. LIRS catalog number 1232.
  • Economakis, A.E. and P.S. Lobel (1998). Aggregation behavior of the grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, at Johnston Atoll, Central Pacific Ocean, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 51: 129-139. LIRS catalog number 90002.
  • Frisch, A.J., M. Ireland, J.R. Rizzari, O.M. Lonnstedt, K.A. Magnenat, C.E. Mirbach and J.-P.A. Hobbs (2016). Reassessing the trophic role of reef sharks as apex predators on coral reefs. Coral Reefs, 35: 459-472. LIRS catalog number 1981.
  • Frisch, A.J. and J.R. Rizzari (2019). Parks for sharks: human exclusion areas outperform no-take marine reserves. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi:10.1002/fee.2003. LIRS catalog number 2382.
  • Martin, R.A. (2007). A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark-human interactions, Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 40: 3-34. LIRS catalog number 90001.
  • Momigliano, P., W.D. Robbins, M. Gardner and A. Stow (2014). Characterisation of 15 novel microsatellite loci for the grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), Conservation Genetics Resources, 6: 661-663. LIRS catalog number 1808.
  • Papastamatiou, Y.P., B.M. Wetherbee, C.G. Lowe and G.L. Crow (2006). Distribution and diet of four species of carcharhinid shark in the Hawaiian Islands: evidence for resource partitioning and competitive exclusion, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 320: 239-251. LIRS catalog number 90003.
  • Robbins, W.D. (2006). Abundance, demography and population structure of the grey reef shark (Carcharinus amblyrhynchos) and the whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) (Family Carcharhinidae), Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Australia. LIRS catalog number 988.
  • Robbins, W.D., M. Hisano, S.R. Connolly and J.H. Choat (2006). Ongoing collapse of coral-reef shark populations, Current Biology, 16: 2314-2319. LIRS catalog number 993.
  • Stevens, J.D. and K.J. McLoughlin (1991). Distribution, size and sex composition, reproductive biology and diet of sharks from northern Australia, Marine and Freshwater Research, 42: 151-199. LIRS catalog number 90004.
  • Wetherbee, B.M., G.L. Crow and C.G. Lowel (1997). Reproduction and diet of the gray reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos in Hawaii, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 151: 181-189. LIRS catalog number 90005.