Ethnotaxonomy of sharks from tropical waters of Brazil

• Main Authors: Marcelo Moreira de Carvalho (Author), Mônica Rocha de Oliveira (Author), Priscila Fabiana Macedo Lopes (Author), Jorge Eduardo Lins Oliveira (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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Abstract Background Accessing folk knowledge from small-scale fishers is an affordable and reliable approach to understand the dynamic and diversity of shark species worldwide, especially of those eventually caught. In this context, ethnotaxonomy (folk identification and classification) may represen...