Great and Scalloped hammerhead sharks tracking study, Exmouth Gulf and Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2016-2018)

Andrew Chin

doi:10.15468/68yjd3

Great and Scalloped hammerhead sharks tracking study, Exmouth Gulf and Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2016-2018)

Citation

Chin A (2024). Great and Scalloped hammerhead sharks tracking study, Exmouth Gulf and Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2016-2018). Version 1.13. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=nesp_a5_hammerheads&v=1.13 https://doi.org/10.15468/68yjd3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-10-10.

Description

A key information gap in managing Australia’s hammerhead sharks is whether Australian stocks are shared with neighboring countries, especially Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Hammerhead sharks are known to be highly migratory and the extent of connectivity between countries is relevant to management approaches. This NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A5 - "Defining connectivity of Australia’s hammerhead sharks" used a integrated, multi-method approach including satellite tagging, genetics, and parasite analysis.

Five Great hammerheads and seven Scalloped hammerheads were tracked at Exmouth Gulf and the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 to 2018. The hammerheads were tagged with Wildlife Computers miniPAT archival tags and SPOT6 tags. Project details and links to this data and others is at https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2bc9e6be-ed27-43fa-aa05-1f2332df7125 and https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/project/project-a5-defining-connectivity-australia’s-hammerhead-sharks

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Sphyrna mokarran
common name: Great hammerhead rank: species
Sphyrna lewini
common name: Scalloped hammerhead rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia and Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

Bibliographic Citations

Heupel, M., Simpfendorfer, C., Chin, A., Appleyard, S., Barton, D., Green, M., Johnson, G., McAuley, R, White, W. (2020). Examination of connectivity of hammerhead sharks in northern Australia. Report to the National Environmental Science Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub. Australian Institute of Marine Science -

Contacts

Andrew Chin
originator
position: Principal Investigator
Australian Institute of Marine Science QLD (AIMS)
PMB No. 3
Townsville
4810
Queensland
AU
Telephone: 0747814486
email: andrew.chin@jcu.edu.au

Andrew Chin
metadata author
position: Principal Investigator
Australian Institute of Marine Science QLD (AIMS)
PMB No. 3
Townsville
4810
Queensland
AU
Telephone: 0747814486
email: andrew.chin@jcu.edu.au

OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Node Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
PO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
Tasmania
AU
Telephone: +61 3 6232 5062
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

Andrew Chin
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Investigator
Australian Institute of Marine Science QLD (AIMS)
PMB No. 3
Townsville
4810
Queensland
AU
Telephone: 0747814486
email: andrew.chin@jcu.edu.au

Michelle Heupel
administrative point of contact
position: Investigator
Australian Institute of Marine Science