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Map showing the location of the Cayman Islands, Cayman Trough and Cayman Ridge within the wider Caribbean region. The white rectangle shows the position of the Cayman Islands, with the inset showing the relative positions of Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands (Little Cayman and Cayman Brac). Main map: reproduced with permission from Esri, USGS | Esri, TomTom, FAO, NOAA, USGS | Sources: Esri; Garmin International, Inc.; U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (The World Factbook); National Geographic Society. Map of the Cayman Islands: reproduced with permission from Department of Environment, Cayman Islands Government.
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The scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), a critically endangered species with a decreasing global population, is characterised by its occurrence in large schools. Such schools are still observed today in the Pacific Ocean, but this is generally not the case in the Atlantic Ocean, and in the Cayman Islands not since the 1970s. Here we report...
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... There have been recent research efforts to explore the biodiversity in the deep waters around the Cayman Islands Gallagher et al., 2023;Gore et al., 2024). However, with potential for hosting a range of unique species and high rates of biodiversity, more studies need to be undertaken to systematically assess and quantify the biodiversity of the deep ocean throughout the territorial waters of the Cayman Islands. ...
The roughskin dogfish Centroscymnus owstonii, a deep‐sea shark, has a patchy global distribution, with most knowledge stemming from incidentally captured specimens. Using a deep‐sea remote lander video system, we observed multiple C. owstonii individuals alive on the footage at 1054 m off Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, Western Atlantic Ocean, marking, to our knowledge, the first record of the species in the Greater Antilles, central Caribbean Sea, while also adding a new species locality record for the Cayman Islands. This study expands our knowledge of the distribution of the roughskin dogfish in the region, and highlights the utility of video lander systems for enhancing and expanding our understanding of the biology and diversity of deep‐sea sharks.
