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- Carter Kaplan
- Carter Kaplan has taught in Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City, and Scotland. His work includes a book on Wittgenstein and literary theory, Critical Synoptics: Menippean Satire and the Analysis of Intellectual Mythology. Articles on “Karel Čapek,” “Menippean Satire” and “Dystopian Literature” appear in The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Articles on "Herman Melville" and "Michael Butterworth" appear in A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (which also has an article about him). He has contributed a chapter on William Blake and Michael Moorcock to New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction. Author of the novels Tally-Ho, Cornelius! and Echoes, and the Aristophanic comedy Diogenes. He edits the annual literary anthology Emanations. Editor of the IA edition of The Scarlet Letter, with his Afterword, "A" is for Antinomian: Theology and Politics in The Scarlet Letter. He is editor of the anthology Fantasy Worlds. He is co-translator and editor of Creation of the World by Torquato Tasso.
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Made in Ja-panic. . .
Hemitriakis japanica
Japanese Topeshark
Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa:
Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Triakidae (Houndsharks) > Galeorhininae
Etymology:
Hemitriakis: Greek, hemi = half + Greek, triakis = three times
Environment / Climate / Range Ecology
Marine; demersal; depth range 20 - 345 m. Subtropical; 40°N - 21°S, 119°E - 177°E
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?, range 81 - 102 cm
Max length : 110 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 244); 120.0 cm TL (female); max. reported age: 15 years (Ref. 9031)
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri
Northwest Pacific:
China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. Nominal records from Ambon, Indonesia (unconfirmed and based on a specimen close to if not identical to Hemitriakis abdita) and New Caledonia.
Epibenthic:
Occurs close inshore and offshore down to at least 100 m depth. Presumably feeds on small fishes, cephalopods and crustaceans. Ovoviviparous, with 8 to 22 young in a litter. Size at birth about 20 to 21 cm. Utilized for human consumption.
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae:
Ovoviviparous, embryos feed solely on yolk.
Threat to humans:
Harmless
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