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Crossroads of the Highbrow Commonwealth
- 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. 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.
Echoes
Emanations: I Am Not a Number
Emanations: 2 + 2 = 5
Emanations: Foray into Forever
Emanations: Third Eye
Emanations: Second Sight
Emanations
Creation of the World by Torquato Tasso
Fantasy Worlds
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Diogenes
Tally-Ho, Cornelius!
Critical Synoptics: Menippean Satire and the Analysis of Intellectual Mythology
New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction
Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics
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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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