DR LEONARD COMPAGNO'S PUBLICATIONS

LIST OF LJVC PUBLICATIONS, 1967-2010

Publications: Over 600 items are published or in press, including abstracts, papers, popular articles, reports, web site reports, books and book chapters. Major books include Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes (1988, reprinted 2003); the 1984 FAO Catalog of World Sharks; the revised FAO Catalog of World Sharks being published from 2001 through 2010; the Guide to the sharks and rays of Southern Africa (1989) coauthored with D. A. Ebert and M. J. Smale; the cartilaginous fish chapters (some coauthored) for Smith’s Sea Fishes, ed. by M. M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (1986 and revisions); the Harper-Collins/Princeton Field guide to sharks of the world with M. Dando and S. Fowler as coauthors (published 2005, with a revision planned for 2010) with several versions including a revised edition in 2005, a Spanish translation, and the derivative Collins gem. Sharks published in 2006. Publications are listed as follows:
Abstracts:
Compagno, L.J.V. 1985. Evolution of Lamniform sharks. South African J. Sci. 81: 299.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P. C. Heemstra. 2001. Revision of the sixgill stingray family Hexatrygonidae. Abstract of paper presented on 24 May 2001, published in Scientific Programme and Book of Abstracts, 6th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, p. 20.
Compagno, L. J. V., M. J. Smale, S.F.J. Dudley, & S.F. Cook. 1994. Abstract of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Subequatorial African Region Report. Shark News (1): 7.
Dainty, A. M., M. A. Marks, C. L. Griffiths & L.J.V. Compagno. 2001. Age, growth and consumption rate analyses of four catshark species in the southwestern Cape, South Africa. Abstract of poster presented on 22 May 2001, published in Scientific Programme and Book of Abstracts, 6th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, pp. 21-22.
Endicott, M., L.J.V. Compagno, & D.J. Agnew. 2002. Identification of Amblyraja species in the longline fishery in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3. CCAMLR Scientific Abstracts, 2002, 38-39.
Human, B.A., L.J.V. Compagno & E. H. Harley. 2001. Construction of genomic DNA libraries for the catshark genus Poroderma (Chondrichthyes, Scyliorhinidae) for population studies using microsatellites. Abstract of paper presented on 25 May 2001, published in Scientific Programme and Book of Abstracts, 6th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, p. 33.
Leslie, R.W., L.J.V. Compagno, & P.A. Hulley. 1997. Fishes from the shelf and upper-slope regions of the western Moambique Channel. Abstract of a paper given at the Biodiversity Symposium at J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, December 1997.
Leslie, Robin W., L.J.V. Compagno & P. A. Hulley. 2001. New records of deep-sea fishes from the Madagascar Ridge. Abstract of poster presented on 22 May 2001, published in Scientific Programme and Book of Abstracts, 6th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, p. 40.
Smale, M. J., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1996. Conservation and management of chondrichthyans. 2nd World Fisheries Congress, Brisbane, Australia, Proc. 1: 160-161.

Books:
Compagno, L.J.V. 1979. Carcharhinoid sharks: morphology, systematics and phylogeny. Unpub. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford U., 932 pp., published by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 4, Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. vol. 4, pt. 1: viii, 1-250; pt. 2: x, 251-655.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes. Princeton University Press, xii + 572+ pp., 157 figs., 35 plates.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2001. Sharks of the World. Volume 2. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the shark species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fisheries Purposes (1): i-v, 1-269, figs. 1-163 plus approximately 160 maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes. Reprint of the 1988 Princeton book (see above), with new introduction. Blackburn Press, Massachusetts, xii + 572+ pp., 157 figs., 35 plates.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World (cover as Collins Field Guide. Sharks of the World). Harper-Collins, London. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Original version (first printing), ISBN 0 00 713610 2 (hard cover) with a forward by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World (cover as Collins Field Guide. Sharks of the World). Harper-Collins, London. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. SOS Foundation special version, ISBN 0 00 772602 3 (hard cover) with the SOS logo on the cover and an anonymous SOS forward.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005. Sharks of the World (cover as Princeton Field Guide. Sharks of the World.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Published January 2005. ISBN 0-691-12072-2 (hard cover). All Princeton versions are published in English rather than American English, but with different cover art than the Harper-Collins versions.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005. Sharks of the World (cover as Princeton Field Guide. Sharks of the World.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Published January 2005. ISBN 0-691-12071-4 (paperback). All Princeton versions are published in English rather than American English., but with different cover art than the Harper-Collins versions.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005-2006. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World (cover as Collins Field Guide. Sharks of the World). Harper-Collins, London. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Second printing, possibly ISBN 0 00 713610 2 (hard cover), with a forward by Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch. After the book sold out in less than eight months in 2005 the authors worked on a first revised version submitted to Harper-Collins in October 2005 and published in late 2005 or early 2006 with text corrections and 100 modified maps.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005-2006. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World (cover as Collins Field Guide. Sharks of the World). Harper-Collins, London. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Second printing of the SOS Foundation special version, ISBN 0 00 772602 3 (hard cover) with the SOS logo on the cover and an anonymous SOS forward. This is based on the first revised version submitted to Harper-Collins in October 2005 and published in late 2005 or early 2006 with text corrections and 100 modified maps.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005-2006. Sharks of the World (cover as Princeton Field Guide. Sharks of the World.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Second printing, ISBN 0-691-12072-2 (hard cover). All Princeton versions are published in English rather than American English, but have different cover art. After the book sold out in less than eight months in 2005 the authors worked on a first revised version of the Harper-Collins book submitted in October 2005 and in turn published by Princeton in late 2005 or early 2006. These have text corrections and 100 modified maps.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2005-2006. Sharks of the World (cover as Princeton Field Guide. Sharks of the World.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Second printing, ISBN 0-691-12071-4 (paperback). All Princeton versions are published in English rather than American English., but with different cover art than the Harper-Collins versions. After the book sold out in less than eight months in 2005 the authors worked on a first revised version of the Harper-Collins book submitted in October 2005 and in turn published by Princeton in late 2005 or early 2006. These have text corrections and 100 modified maps.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Dando & S. Fowler. 2006. Guia de campo de los Tiburones del Mundo. Barcelona, Spain, Ediciones Omega. Pp i-vii, 9-368, monochrome figs. 1-60, color pls. 1-64, plus numerous unnumbered text figures and maps. Spanish version out in 2006, based on the first revised English version with text corrections and modified maps, translated by M. Jesus Fortes Fortes and with new cover art and cover layout and Spanish common names.
Compagno, L.J.V., Marc Dando & Sarah Fowler. 2006. Collins gem. Sharks. Harper-Collins, London. Pp. 1-224, illustrations, due on August 7, 2006. ISBN-10 00 721986 5 and ISBN-13.9 78 0 00 721986 5. Paperback, £4.99. Has dorky gaping white shark artwork on cover.
Compagno, L.J.V., Marc Dando & Sarah Fowler. 2006. Collins gem. Sharks. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA via Collins. Pp. 1-224, illustrations, due on August 1, 2006. ISBN-13: 9 78 0 00 721986 5 and ISBN-10:0-06-084976-2. $7.95 paperback, Different cover from original with good white shark gaping photo.
Compagno, L.J.V., D. A. Ebert, & M. J. Smale. 1989. Guide to the sharks and rays of southern Africa. Struik Pub., Cape Town, 160 pp., ill.
Compagno, L.J.V., C. Simpfendorfer, J.E. McCosker, K. Holland, C. Lowe, B. Wetherbee, A. Bush, & C. Meyer. 1998. Sharks (Reader's Digest explores). Reader's Digest, 160 pp., illustr. ISBN 0-7621-0041-9
Levine, M.C., D. Thorpe, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1994. Sharks. Questions and Answers. New Holland Pub., London, 32 pp., ill.

Book chapters:
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Echinorhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, p. 63.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Proscylliidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 87-88.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Scyliorhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 88-95.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Mitsukurinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, p. 103.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Odontaspididae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 104-105.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Echinorhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, p. 63.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Proscylliidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 87-88.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Scyliorhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 88-95.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Mitsukurinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, p. 103.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Odontaspididae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 104-105.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Echinorhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, p. 63.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Proscylliidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 87-88.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Scyliorhinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 88-95.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Mitsukurinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, p. 103.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Odontaspididae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised) , ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 104-105.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Echinorhinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, p. 63.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Proscylliidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 87-88.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Scyliorhinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 88-95.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Mitsukurinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, p. 103.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Odontaspididae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 104-105.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Echinorhinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 63.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Proscylliidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 87-88.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Scyliorhinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 88-95.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Mitsukurinidae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, p. 103.
Bass, A.J, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Odontaspididae. In Smith’s Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 104-105.
Bass, A.J., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. C. Heemstra. 1986. Family Squalidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 49-62.
Bass, A.J., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. C. Heemstra. 1988. Family Squalidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 49-62.
Bass, A.J., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. C. Heemstra. 1991. Family Squalidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 49-62.
Bass, A.J., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. C. Heemstra. 1995. Family Squalidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 49-62.
Bass, A.J., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. C. Heemstra. 2003. Family Squalidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression (revised). Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 49-62.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Hexanchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 45-47.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1986. Family Carcharhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 67-87.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Hexanchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 45-47.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Family Carcharhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 67-87.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Hexanchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 45-47.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. Family Carcharhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd revised printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 67-87.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Hexanchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 45-47.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. Family Carcharhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 67-87.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Hexanchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 45-47.
Bass, A.J. P. C. Heemstra, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2003. Family Carcharhinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, fourth impression (revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 67-87.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1973. Carcharhinidae. In J.-C. Hureau & T. Monod, eds. CLOFNAM. Check-list of the fishes of the north Atlantic and Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris, 1: 23-31.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1973. Interrelationships of living elasmobranchs. In P.H. Greenwood, R. Miles, and C. Patterson, eds., Interrelationships of fishes. London, Academic Press: 15-61.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Sharks. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 8 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total; see Compagno, 1978, and Compagno & Vergara, 1978, for shark family accounts).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Cetorhinidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Ginglymostomatidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Hexanchidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 2 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Odontaspididae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Oxynotidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Pristiophoridae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Proscylliidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Rhiniodontidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1978. Squatinidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1979. Coelacanths: shark relatives or bony fishes? In J.E. McCosker & M. D. Lagios, eds. The biology and physiology of the living coelacanth. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, (134): 45-54.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Legend versus reality: the Jaws image and shark diversity. Oceanus, 24(4): 5-16.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Chimaeras. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 4, pp. 1-4 (of 180 pp total chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Sharks. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 4, pp. 1-11 (of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Alopiidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 4, 1-2 + 4 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Carcharhinidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-8 + 34 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Cetorhinidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Chlamydoselachidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Echinorhinidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Ginglymostomatidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Hemigaleidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Hexanchidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-2 + 4 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Lamnidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-3 + 8 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Leptochariidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Mitsukurinidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Odontaspididae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-3 + 4 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Oxynotidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-2 + 2 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Pseudocarchariidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Pseudotriakidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Rhiniodontidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Scyliorhinidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-4 + 6 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Sphyrnidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-4 + 6 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Squalidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-9, + 28 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Squatinidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-3 + 6 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1981. Triakidae. In W. Fischer, G. Bianchi, & W.B. Scott, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic, Fishing Areas 34, 47(part). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 1-4 + 8 pp. (species not paginated, of 180 pp total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1982. Galeomorph sharks. In S. Parker, ed. Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill, vol. 2, pp. 844-857.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1983. Chapter 4, Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras. In Eschmeyer, W. N., Herald, E. S., & Hamman, H. A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, pp. 13-59.
Compagno, L.J.V., 1983. The shark fauna of the Red Sea. In Marine Science in the Red Sea, Proceedings of the 1982 International Scientific Conference on the Red Sea, ed. A. F. Abdel Latif, A. Refai Bayoumi, & M.F. Thompson, Bull. Inst. Ocean. Fish. (Egypt), 9: 381-406.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Chimaeras. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-3 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Sharks. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-13 (272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Alopiidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-3 + 6 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Carcharhinidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-12 + 60 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Chlamydoselachidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp.(species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Echinorhinidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp.(species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Ginglymostomatidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-2 + 4 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Hemigaleidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-4 + 6 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Hemiscylliidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-3 + 4 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Heterodontidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp.(species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Hexanchidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp.1-3 + 8 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Lamnidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-3 + 8 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Mitsukurinidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp.(species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Odontaspididae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-3 + 4 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Pristiophoridae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-2 + 2 (species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Proscylliidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-3 (272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Pseudocarchariidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Pseudotriakidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp.(species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Rhiniodontidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp.(species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Scyliorhinidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-7 + 2 (species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Sphyrnidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. 1-3, 8 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Squalidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-9 + 22 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Squatinidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, pp. 1-2 + 2 (species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Stegostomatidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. (species account not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Triakidae. In W. Fischer, & G. Bianchi, eds. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Indian Ocean. Fishing Area 51. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 3 pp. 1-5, 10 (species accounts not numbered, 272 pp. total Chondrichthyes).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Pristidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 110-111.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Torpedinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 112-113.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Narkidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 113-114.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Rhinobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 128-131.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Myliobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 132-134.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Mobulidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 134-135.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Dasyatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 135-142.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Chimaeridae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 144-145.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Rhinochimaeridae In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, pp. 146-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Family Callorynchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Macmillian, Johannesburg, p. 147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Kinds of sharks, in Stevens, J. D., gen. ed., Sharks. Weldon and associates, Australia, pp. 18-25.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Sharks and their relatives, in Stevens, J. D., gen. ed., Sharks. Weldon and associates, Australia, pp. 62-63.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Shark attack in South Africa, in Stevens, J. D., gen. ed., Sharks. Weldon and associates, Australia, pp. 134-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Checklist of living sharks, in Stevens, J. D., gen. ed., Sharks. Weldon and associates, Australia, pp. 230-233.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Pristidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 110-111.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Torpedinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 112-113.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Narkidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 113-114.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Rhinobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 128-131.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Myliobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 132-134.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Mobulidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 134-135.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Dasyatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 135-142.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Chimaeridae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 144-145.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Rhinochimaeridae In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 146-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Family Callorynchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (2nd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, p. 147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990a. Alternate life history styles of cartilaginous fishes in time and space. In M. Bruton & E. Balon, eds. Alternative life history styles of fishes (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of South Africa symposium held in Grahamstown, 1987), Environm. Biol. Fishes, 28(1-4): 33-75, figs. 1-36.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990b. Relationships of the megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios (Megachasmidae, Lamniformes), with comments on its feeding habits. In H.L. Pratt, Jr., S. H. Gruber, & T. Taniuchi, eds.. Elasmobranchs as living resources: Advances in the biology, ecology, systematics, and the status of the fisheries. NOAA Technical Report (90): 363-385, fig. 1-12.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990c. Shark exploitation and conservation. In H.L. Pratt, Jr., S. H. Gruber, & T. Taniuchi, eds.. Elasmobranchs as living resources: Advances in the biology, ecology, systematics, and the status of the fisheries. NOAA Technical Report (90): 397-420, fig. 1-16.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990d. Sharks. Families Lamnidae and Squalidae. In Atlas of Southern Ocean Fishes, ed. O. Gon & P.C. Heemstra. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology: 81-85, 3 figs.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990e. Evolution and diversity of sharks. In S. H. Gruber, ed., Discovering sharks. A volume honoring the work of Stewart Springer. Underwater Naturalist, Bulletin of the American Littoral Society, 19-20(4/1): 15-22, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Pristidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 110-111.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Torpedinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 112-113.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Narkidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 113-114.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Rhinobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 128-131.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Myliobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 132-134.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Mobulidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 134-135.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Dasyatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 135-142.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Chimaeridae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 144-145.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Rhinochimaeridae In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 146-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Family Callorynchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd printing), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, p. 147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Additions to families Orectolobidae, Alopiidae, Pristiophoridae, Rajidae, and Anacanthobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M.Smith & P.C. Heemstra. Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, v-vi.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Pristidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 110-111.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Torpedinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 112-113.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Narkidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 113-114.
Compagno, L.J.V.. 1995. Family Narcinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, 1st edition, third impression (revised), ed. by M.M.Smith & P.C. Heemstra. Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. vi-vii.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Rhinobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 128-131.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Myliobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 132-134.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Mobulidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 134-135.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Dasyatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 135-142.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Chimaeridae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 144-145.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Rhinochimaeridae In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, pp. 146-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Family Callorynchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, p. 147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Sharks. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1195-1207 (173 pp. total for sharks; see Compagno 1998 and Compagno & Niem, 1998 for shark family accounts).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Pristiophoridae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1233-1234 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Ginglymostomatidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1260-1261 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Stegostomatidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1262 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Rhincodontidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1263 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Pseudocarchariidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1268 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Alopiidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1269-1273 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Lamnidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1274-1278 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Pseudotriakidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1296 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Hemigaleidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1305-1311 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Sphyrnidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1361-1366 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Red List species assessments. In N.A. Gibble, G. McPherson, & B. Lane, eds., Shark management and conservation. Proceedings from the Sharks and Man workshop of the Second World Fisheries Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 2 August 1996, Dept. Primary Industries, Queensland, Aust: 72-73.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1998. Status of freshwater elasmobranchs. In N.A. Gibble, G. McPherson, & B. Lane, eds., Shark management and conservation. Proceedings from the Sharks and Man workshop of the Second World Fisheries Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 2 August 1996, Dept. Primary Industries, Queensland, Aust: 76-77.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Chapter 1. Systematics and body form. In W. C. Hamlett, ed.. Sharks, skates and rays. The biology of elasmobranch fishes. Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 1-42, fig. 1.1-1.15.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Chapter 3. Endoskeleton. In W. C. Hamlett, ed.. Sharks, skates and rays. The biology of elasmobranch fishes. Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 69-92, fig. 3.1-3.8.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Appendix. Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In W. C. Hamlett, ed.. Sharks, skates and rays. The biology of elasmobranch fishes. Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 471 to 498.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Kinds of sharks, in Stevens, J. D., consulting ed., Sharks. Revised edition. Weldon Owen publishers, Australia, pp. 20-35.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Sharks and their relatives, in Stevens, J. D., consulting ed., Sharks. Revised edition. Weldon Owen publishers, Australia, pp. 36-37.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Shark encounters in South Africa, in Stevens, J. D., consulting ed., Sharks. Revised edition. Weldon Owen publishers, Australia, pp. 134-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Conserving sharks, in Stevens, J. D., consulting ed., Sharks. Revised edition. Weldon Owen publishers, Australia, pp. 214-218.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Checklist of living sharks, in Stevens, J. D., consulting ed., Sharks. Revised edition. Weldon Owen publishers, Australia, pp. 230-233.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Chimaeras. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1532-1537, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Elasmobranchii, Holocephali. In J. E. Randall & Kelvin K. P. Lim, eds. A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (supp. 8): 577-584.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Review of the biodiversity of sharks and chimaeras in the South China Sea and adjacent areas. In Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed and Frances A. Dipper, eds, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Proceedings of the International Seminar and Workshop, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1997. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (25): 52-63, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-6.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Freshwater and estuarine elasmobranch surveys in the Indo-Pacific region: Threats, distribution and speciation. In Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed and Frances A. Dipper, eds, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Proceedings of the International Seminar and Workshop, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1997. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (25): 168-180, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-3.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Sharks. Technical terms and measurements. Key to families occurring in the area. List of orders, families and species occurring in the Area. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 357-381, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-26 .
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Hexanchiformes. Chlamydoselachidae. Frilled sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 372-373, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Hexanchidae. Cowsharks, sixgill and sevengill sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 374-376, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-3, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Squaliformes. Echinorhinidae. Bramble sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 377-378, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Squalidae. Dogfish sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 379-385, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-4, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Centrophoridae. Gulper sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 386-392, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-9, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Etmopteridae. Lantern sharks (black dogfishes). In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 393-401, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-10, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Somniosidae. Sleeper sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 402-407, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-4, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Oxynotidae. Rough sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 408-409, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Dalatiidae. Kitefin sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 410-414, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-4, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Squatiniformes. Squatinidae. Angel sharks (sand devils). In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 415-416, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Pristiophoriformes. Pristiophoridae. Sawsharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 417-418, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Lamniformes. Odontaspididae. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 419-424, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-4, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Mitsukurinidae. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 425-426, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Alopiidae. Thresher sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 427-430, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-2, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Cetorhinidae. Basking sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 431-432, unnumbered fig. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Lamnidae. Mackerel sharks, makos, white sharks, porbeagles. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 433-439, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-6, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Orectolobiformes. Ginglymostomatidae. Nurse sharks (tawny sharks). In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 440-441, unnumbered fig. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Rhincodontidae. Whale sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 442-443, unnumbered fig. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Order Carcharhiniformes. Scyliorhinidae. Catsharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 444-455, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-22, map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Proscylliidae. Finback (ribbontail) catsharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 456-457, unnumbered figs. + map.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Triakidae. Houndsharks (smoothhounds, topes) In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 458-465, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-2, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Carcharhinidae. Requiem sharks (ground sharks, blue sharks, sharpnose sharks). In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 466-498, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-25, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Sphyrnidae. Hammerhead and bonnethead sharks. In K. Carpenter, ed. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists special publication no. 9, 1: 407-505, unnumbered figs. + figs. 1-8, maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Additions to families Orectolobidae, Alopiidae, Pristiophoridae, Rajidae, and Anacanthobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M.Smith & P.C. Heemstra. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, v-vi.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Pristidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 110-111.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Torpedinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 112-113.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Narkidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 113-114.
Compagno, L.J.V.. 2003. Family Narcinidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M.Smith & P.C. Heemstra. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. vi-vii.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Rhinobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 128-131.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Myliobatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 132-134.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Mobulidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 134-135.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Dasyatidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 135-142.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Chimaeridae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 144-145.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Rhinochimaeridae In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 146-147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Family Callorynchidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M. Smith & P.C. Heemstra, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 147.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2005. Chapter 16. Checklist of living Chondrichthyes. In W. Hamlett, ed. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Chondrichthyes: Sharks, Batoids and Chimaeras. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire, USA: 503-548.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2005. 19 chapters, regional overviews, species status reports, taxonomic section headings, Appendix 1, and 40 Red List assessments (total 145 printed pages) with 19 coauthors (mostly as sole or senior author, see below) on chondrichthyan systematics and conservation, in Fowler, Sarah L., Rachel D. Cavanagh, Merry Camhi, George H. Burgess, Gregor M. Cailliet, Sonja V. Fordham, Colin A. Simpfendorfer & John A. Musick. Status survey. Sharks, Rays and Chimaeras: The Status of the Chondrichthyan Fishes. IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Pp. i-ix, 1-462, numerous illustrations and tables.
Chapters:
Compagno, L.J.V., Dominique A. Didier, & George H. Burgess. Chapter 2. Classification of chondrichthyan fishes. Pp. 4-11, figs. 2.1-2.2, tab. 2.1.
Regional overviews:
Compagno, L.J.V., Rachel D. Cavanaugh, Malcolm J. Smale, Sheldon F. J. Dudley, Sid F. Cook, Andrew Cooke, Warwick Sauer & Hannes Holtzhausen. Chapter 7. Regional overviews. 7.4. Subequatorial Africa. Pp. 113-131, figs. 7.10-7.12, unnumbered photos (2), tab. 7.4.
Species status reports:
Compagno, L.J.V. Chapter 8. Species status reports. 8.3. Endemic marine species. Pp. 214-216, 1 fig. (of ‘Heteronarce’ = Electrolux from South Africa)
Compagno, L.J.V., & Sid F. Cook. Chapter 8. Species status reports. 8.4. Freshwater species. Pp. 215-216, 1 fig., tab. 8.1.
Compagno, L.J.V., & John A. Musick. Chapter 8. Species status reports. 8.5. Deepwater species. Pp. 216-217, 1 fig.
Compagno, L.J.V. Chapter 8. Species status reports. 8.6. Rarities. P. 217, 1 fig.

Taxonomic section headings:
Compagno,L.J.V. OrderHexanchiformes, cow and frilled sharks. P. 222.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Squaliformes, dogfish sharks. P. 225, 1 fig.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Squatiniformes, angel sharks. P. 232.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Pristiophoriformes, Sawsharks. P. 231.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Sid F. Cook. Order Rajiformes, batoids, Suborder Pristoidei, sawfishes. Pp. 320-321, 1 fig.
Compagno, L.J.V. Suborders Rhinoidei, sharkrays; Rhynchobatoidei, wedgefishes; Rhinobatoidei, guitarfishes. P. 328, 1 fig.
Compagno, L.J.V. Suborder Torpedinoidei, electric rays. P. 331, 1 fig.
Compagno, L.J.V. Suborder Rajoidei, skates. P. 332.
Compagno, L.J.V. Suborder Myliobatoidei, stingrays. P. 343.
Compagno, L.J.V., Order Heterodontiformes, bullhead or horn sharks. Pp. 236-237.
Compagno, L.J.V., Order Orectolobiformes, carpet sharks. P. 239.
Compagno, L.J.V., Order Lamniformes, mackerel sharks. P. 245.
Compagno, L.J.V., Order Carcharhiniformes, ground sharks. P. 264.
Appendix.
Compagno, L.J.V. Appendix 1. Global checklist of living chondrichthyan fishes. Pp. 401-423.
Red list assessments:
Compagno, L.J.V., Broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus (Peron, 1807). Pp. 222-224, 1 fig., tab. 8.3.
Compagno, L.J.V. Pyjama shark Poroderma africanum (Gmelin, 1788). Pp. 267-268, tab. 8.30.
Compagno, L.J.V. Barbeled houndshark Leptocharias smithii (Müller & Henle, 1839). P. 269, tab. 8.32.
Compagno, L.J.V. Whitefin topeshark Hemitriakis leucoperiptera Herre, 1923. Pp. 272-273, tab. 8.35.
Compagno, L.J.V. Flapnose houndshark Scylliogaleus quecketti Boulenger, 1902. Pp. 279-280, tab. 8.41.
Compagno, L.J.V. Sharpfin houndshark Triakis acutipinna Kato, 1968. P. 280, tab. 8.42.
Compagno, L.J.V. Spotted gully shark Triakis megalopterus (Smith, 1849). Pp. 280-281, tab. 8.43.
Compagno, L.J.V. Borneo shark Carcharhinus borneensis (Bleeker, 1859). P. 287, tab. 8.48.
Compagno, L.J.V. Pondicherry shark Carcharhinus hemiodon (Valenciennes, in Müller & Henle, 1839). Pp. 290-291, tab. 8.51.
Compagno, L.J.V. Smoothtooth blacktip Carcharhinus leiodon Garrick, 1985. P. 291, tab. 8.52.
Compagno, L.J.V. Ganges shark Glyphis gangeticus (Müller & Henle, 1839). Pp. 305-306, tab. 8.60.
Compagno, L.J.V. Speartooth shark Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839). P. 306, tab. 8.61.
Compagno, L.J.V. Smooth freshwater stingray or Niger stingray Dasyatis garouaensis (Stauch & Blanc, 1962). Pp. 346-347, tab. 8.93.
Compagno, L.J.V. Mekong freshwater stingray Dasyatis laosensis Roberts & Karnasuta, 1987. Pp. 347-348, tab. 8.94.
Compagno, L.J.V. Ganges stingray Himantura fluviatilis (Hamilton-Buchanan, 1822/Annandale, 1910). Pp. 349-350, tab. 8.96.
Compagno, L.J.V. Marbled freshwater stingray Himantura oxyrhyncha (Sauvage, 1878). Pp. 350-351, tab. 8.97.
Compagno, L.J.V. White-edge freshwater whipray Himantura signifer Compagno & Roberts, 1982. Pp. 351-352, tab. 8.98.
Compagno, L.J.V., Ribbontailed stingray, bluespotted ribbontail or fantail ray Taeniura lymma (Forsskael, 1775). P. 352, tab. 8.99.
Compagno, L.J.V., Porcupine ray Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). Pp. 352-353, tab. 8.100.
Compagno, L.J.V., Pincushion ray or thorny freshwater stingray Urogymnus ukpam (Smith, 1863). Pp. 353-354, tab. 8.101.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Rachel D. Cavanaugh. Megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno & Struhsaker, 1983. Pp. 249-250, tab. 8.20.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Sid F. Cook. Kitefin shark Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788). Pp. 230-231, tab. 8.6.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Sid F. Cook. Greattooth or freshwater sawfish Pristis microdon Latham, 1794. Pp. 323-324, tab. 8.74.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Sid F. Cook. Giant freshwater stingray or whipray Himantura chaophraya (Monkolprasit and Roberts, 1990). Pp. 348-349, 1 fig, tab. 8.95.
Compagno, L.J.V., Sid F. Cook, & Madeline I. Oetinger. Knifetooth, pointed or narrow sawfish Anoxypristis cuspidata (Latham, 1794). Pp. 321-322, tab. 8.72.
Compagno, L.J.V., Sid F. Cook, & Madeline I. Oetinger. Green sawfish Pristis zijsron Bleeker, 1851. Pp. 327-328, tab. 8.78.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Marcel Kroese. Puffadder shyshark Haploblepharus edwardsii (Voigt, in Cuvier, 1832). P. 265, tab. 8.27.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Marcel Kroese. Brown shyshark Haploblepharus fuscus Smith, 1950. Pp. 265-266, tab. 8.28.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Marcel Kroese. Yellowspotted catshark Scyliorhinus capensis (Smith, in Müller & Henle, 1838). Pp. 268-269, tab. 8.31.
Compagno, L.J.V., Peter R. Last, & John D. Stevens. Bluegray carpetshark Heteroscyllium colcloughi (Ogilby, 1908). P. 240, tab. 8.14.
Compagno, L.J.V., & John A. Musick. Crocodile shark Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936). Pp. 248-249, tab. 8.19.
Cook, Sid F., L.J.V. Compagno, & Rachel D. Cavanaugh,. Gulper shark (Green eyed dog fish) Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801). Pp. 225-226, tab. 8.4.
Cook, Sid F., & L.J.V. Compagno. Bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788). Pp. 222-223, tab. 8.2.
Cook, Sid F., & L.J.V. Compagno. Common sawfish Pristis pristis (Linnaeus, 1758). P. 327, tab. 8.77.
Cook, Sid F., L.J.V. Compagno & Peter R. Last. Dwarf or Queensland sawfish Pristis clavata Garman, 1906. Pp. 322-323, tab. 8.73.
Cook, Sid F., L.J.V. Compagno, & Madeline I. Oetinger. Largetooth sawfish Pristis perotteti Müller and Henle, 1841. Pp. 325-327, tab. 8.76.
Cook, Sid F. George Zorzi & L.J.V. Compagno, Deepsea skate Bathyraja abyssicola (Gilbert, 1896). Pp. 332-333, tab. 8.82.
Fergusson, Ian K., L.J.V. Compagno & Mark A. Marks. White shark Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758). Pp. 256-259, tab. 8.23.
Lessa, Rosangela P, & L.J.V Compagno, Daggernose shark Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus. Pp. 306-308, tab. 8.62.
Simpfendorfer, Colin, & L.J.V.Compagno. Blackfin topeshark or pencil shark Hypogaleus hyugaensis (Miyosi, 1939). Pp. 273-274, tab. 8.36.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2008. Chapter 2. Pelagic Elasmobranch Diversity In M. Camhi, E. K. Pikitch, & E. A. Babcock, eds. Sharks of the Open Ocean. Blackwell Publishers, pp: 14-23, tab. 2.1. Volume covering the IUCN Asilomar conference on pelagic sharks, 2001. ISBN 0632059958 from Barnes & Noble. Published in March 2008.
Compagno, L.J.V., & A.J. Bass. 1995. Family Lamnidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes, (3rd impression, revised), ed. by M.M.Smith & P.C. Heemstra. Southern Book Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 98-100.
Compagno, L.J.V., & A.J. Bass. 2003. Family Lamnidae. In Smith's Sea Fishes (4th impression, revised), ed. by M.M.Smith & P.C. Heemstra. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 98-100.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S. F. Cook. 1995. The exploitation and conservation of freshwater elasmobranchs: Status of taxa and prospects for the future. In: Volume VII: The biology of freshwater elasmobranchs (Eds. M.I. Oetinger and G.D. Zorzi). Journal of Aquariculture and Aquatic Sciences: 62-90, figs. 1-5.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Dominique Didier. 2002. Checklist of living Chondrichthyes cited in this volume. Based on the World Checklist of Living Chondrichthyes (Compagno & Didier, in press). In Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed and Frances A. Dipper, eds, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Proceedings of the International Seminar and Workshop, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1997. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (25): 245-255.
Compagno, L.J.V., & I.K. Fergusson. 1994. Field studies and tagging of great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758), off Cape Province, South Africa: A synopsis for 1991-1992. In R.C. Earll & S.L. Fowler, eds., Proc. 2nd. European Shark Workshop, London: 18-21.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Tiburones [Sharks]. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 645-656.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Alopiidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 657-661.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Carcharhinidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 662-687.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Cetorhinidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 688.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Chlamydoselachidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 689.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Ginglymostomatidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 691.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Heterodontidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 692-696.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Hexanchidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 697-699.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Lamnidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 700-706.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Megachasmidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 707.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Odontaspididae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 709.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Pseudocarchariidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 709.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Rhincodontidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 710.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Scyliorhinidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 711-713.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Sphyrnidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 714-722.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Squalidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 723-728.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Squatinidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 729.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Wolfgang Schneider. 1995. Triakidae. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter & V. Niem., eds. Guia FAO para la identificacion de especies para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental [Fishing Area 77]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Vol. 2: 730-743.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Peter M. Kyne. 2005. Checklist of Chondrichthyes of the southeast Queensland region, West-Central Pacific. In Christine L. Dudgeon et al. Proceedings of the Inaugural Southern Queensland Elasmobranch Research Forum, pp. 23-27. University of Queensland, Australia.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Pristiformes. Pristidae. Sawfishes. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1410-1417, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Rhinobatiformes. Rhinidae (= Rhynchobatidae). Wedgefishes. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1418-1422, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Rhinobatiformes. Rhinobatidae. Guitarfishes. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1423-1430, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Rhinobatiformes. Platyrhinidae. Thornback rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1431-1432, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Torpediniformes. Narkidae. Sleeper rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1443-1446, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Torpediniformes. Hypnidae. Coffin rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1447-1448, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Torpediniformes. Torpedinidae. Torpedos. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1449-1451, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Plesiobatidae. Giant stingaree. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1467-1468, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Hexatrygonidae. Sixgill stingray. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1477-1478, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Gymnuridae. Butterfly rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1506-1510, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Myliobatidae. Eagle rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1511-1519, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Rhinopteridae. Cownosed rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1520-1523, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Mobulidae. Devil rays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1524-1531, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V. & P.R. Last. 2008. A new species of wedgefish, Rhynchobatus palpebratus (Rajiformes, Rhynchobatoidei, Rhynchobatidae), from the Indo-West Pacific. CSIRO Research Paper (22): 227-240, figs 1-4, tabs. 1-2.
Compagno, L.J.V. & P.R. Last. 2010. A new species of wedgefish, Rhynchobatus springeri (Rajiformes, Rhynchobatoidei, Rhynchobatidae), from the Western Pacific. CSIRO Research Paper (32): 77-88, figs 1-4, tab. 1.
Compagno, L.J.V., P.R. Last, B. Seret, & M. R. De Carvalho. 1999. Batoid fishes. General remarks, key to families, and list of families and species occuring in the area. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1397-1409, figs.
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Hexanchidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1208-1210 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Echinorhinidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1211-1212 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Squalidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1213-1232 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Squatinidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1235-1237 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Heterodontidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1238-1240 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Parascylliidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1241-1242 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Brachaeluridae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1243-1244 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Orectolobidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1245-1248 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Hemiscylliidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1249-1259 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Odontaspididae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1264-1267 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Scyliorhinidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1279-1292 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Proscylliidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1293-1295 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Triakidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1297-1304 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & V.H. Niem. 1998. Carcharhinidae. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1998. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 2: 1312-1360 (173 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & T.R. Roberts. 1984. Dasyatidae. In J. Daget, J.P. Gosse & D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde, eds. Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa. Museum Royal de L'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium/Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Bonde, France. 1: 4-5.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. J. Smale. 1989. Sharks and their relatives. in Payne, A. I. L., & R. J. M. Crawford, eds., Oceans of Life off Southern Africa, Vlaeberg Pub., Cape Town, Chp.20, pt. 1: 198-208.
Compagno, L.J.V., & R. Vergara. 1978. Alopiidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 5 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & R. Vergara. 1978. Carcharhinidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 44 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & R. Vergara. 1978. Lamnidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 14 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & R. Vergara. 1978. Sphyrnidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 6 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & R. Vergara. 1978. Squalidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 9 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., & R. Vergara. 1978. Triakidae. In W. Fischer, ed. FAO species identification sheets for fisheries purposes. Western Central Atlantic, Fishing Area 31. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, vol. 5, 5 pp. (unnumbered, of 107 pp. total).
Compagno, L.J.V., W.T. White & R. Cavanaugh, 2010. Glyphis fowlerae, a new species of river shark (Chondrichthyes; Carcharhiniformes; Carcharhinidae) from northeastern Borneo. CSIRO Research Paper (32): 29-44, figs. 1-7, tabs 1-2.
Compagno, L.J.V., W.T. White & P.R. Last. 2008. Glyphis garricki, a new species of river shark (Chondrichthyes; Carcharhiniformes; Carcharhinidae) from northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, with a redescription of Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839). CSIRO Research Paper (22): 203-225, figs. 1-13, tabs 1-4.
Compagno, L.J.V., G. Zorzi, H. Ishihara, & J. Caira. 1990. Recommendations for future research in systematics, geographic distribution, and evolutionary biology of chondrichthyan fishes. In H.L. Pratt, Jr., S. H. Gruber, & T. Taniuchi, eds.. Elasmobranchs as living resources: Advances in the biology, ecology, systematics, and the status of the fisheries. NOAA Technical Report (90): 519-521.
De Carvalho, M. R., L.J.V.Compagno, & P.R. Last. 1999. Order Torpediniformes. Narcinidae. Numbfishes. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1433-1442, figs.
Duhamel, G., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1985. Sharks. In Fischer, W., & J.-C. Hureau, eds.. FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Southern Ocean. CCAMLR convention area, fishing areas 48, 58, and 88. FAO, Rome, 1: 209-216.
Fergusson, Ian K, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2000. Distributional note on the dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus from the Mediterranean Sea, with a first record from the Maltese Islands. In: B. Seret & J.-Y. Sire, eds. Proc. 3rd European Elasm. Assoc. Meet. Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1999. Paris: Soc. Fr. Ichthyol. & IRD, 2000: 57-65. Figs. 1-3; 1 tab.
Fowler, Sarah L., Mabel B. Manjaji, Rachel D. Cavanagh, L.J.V. Compagno, Scott G. Mycock & Peter R. Last. 1999. Elasmobranch biodiversity, conservation and management in Sabah (Malaysia). Proc. 5th Indo-Pac.Fish Conf. Nouméa, ed. B. Seret & J.-Y. Sire, Soc. Fr. Ichthyol.: 257-269, fig. 1-4.
Gottfried, M.D., L.J.V. Compagno, & S. C. Bowman. 1996. Size and skeletal anatomy of the giant "megatooth" shark Carcharodon megalodon. In Great White Sharks. The biology of Carcharodon carcharias, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. Academic Press, 55-66.
Last, P. R., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1999. Order Rajiformes. Rajidae. Hardnose skates. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1452-1456, figs.
Last, P. R., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1999. Order Rajiformes. Arhynchobatidae. Softnose skates. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1457-1461, figs.
Last, P. R., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1999. Order Rajiformes. Anacanthobatidae. Legskates. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1462-1466, figs.
Last, P. R., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Urolophidae. Stingarees. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1469-1476, figs.
Last, P. R., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1999. Order Myliobatiformes. Dasyatidae. Stingrays. In Carpenter, K.E. and V.H. Niem (eds), 1999. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Rome, FAO, 3: 1479-1505, figs.
Last, P. R., & L.J.V. Compagno. 2002. Review of the biodiversity of rays in the South China Sea and adjacent areas. In Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed and Frances A. Dipper, eds, Elasmobranch Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. Proceedings of the International Seminar and Workshop, Sabah, Malaysia, July 1997. Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (25): 64-69, tabs. 1-6.
Mollet, Henry F., Gregor M. Cailliet, A. P. Klimley, D. A. Ebert, A. D. Testi, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1996. A review of length validation methods and protocols to measure large white sharks. In Great White Sharks. The biology of Carcharodon carcharias, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. Academic Press, 91-108.
Musick, John A., Melanie M. Harbin, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2004. Historical Zoogeography of the Selachii. In Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, & Michael R. Heithaus, eds. Biology of Sharks and their relatives. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida: 33-78, figs. 2.1-2.11, tabs. 2.1-2.7, Appendix.
White, W. T., D.A. Ebert, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2008. Description of two new species of gulper sharks, genus Centrophorus (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Centrophoridae) from Australia. CSIRO Research Paper (22): 1-21, figs. 1-11, tabs. 1-3.

Book prefaces and forwards:
Compagno, L.J.V. Forward, in Ebert, D. A. 2003. Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. Illustrations by Mathew D. Squillante. University of California Press. California Natural History Guides (71), pp. 1-297, 92 line drawings, 69 color Illustrations, 5 tables, 2 maps.
Compagno, L.J.V. Preface, in T. Campbell, ed. 2004, The Ocean World of Abdulmohsin Al Sheikh, privately published, 12-13 of 144 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Vorworte, in E. Ritter. 2004. Mit Haien sprechen. Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, GmbH & Co., Stuttgart, pp. 5-6 of 270 pp.

Papers in journals
Beckley, L. E., G. Cliff, M.J. Smale & L.J.V. Compagno. 1997. Recent strandings and sightings of whale sharks in South Africa. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 50, (3): 343-348, 1 tab., 3 fig.
Brunnschweiler, Juerg M. & L.J.V. Compagno. 2007. First record of Carcharhinus leucas from Tonga, South Pacific. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2, Biodiversity Records, pp. 1-2, figs. 1-2, online paper at: http://www.mba.ac.uk/jmba/pdf/5563.pdf
Casey, J.G., S.M.H. Connett, L.J.V. Compagno, J.D. Stevens, G. Oulton, & S.F. Cook. 1992. The status of pelagic elasmobranchs: Concerns and commentary. Chondros, 3(4): 3-6, fig. 1-2, tab. A.
Cliff, G., L.J.V. Compagno, M. Smale, R. P. van der Elst, & S. P. Wintner. 2000. First records of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias from Mauritius, Zanzibar, Madagascar and Kenya. South African Journal of Science, 96, July 2000: 365-367, fig. 1.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1967. Tooth pattern reversal in three species of sharks. Copeia, 1967 (1): 242-243.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1970. Systematics of the genus Hemitriakis (Selachii: Carcharhinidae), and related genera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 38(4): 63-98.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1973. Ctenacis and Gollum, two new genera of sharks (Selachii: Carcharhinidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 39(14): 257-272.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1973. Gogolia filewoodi, a new genus and species of shark from New Guinea (Carcharhiniformes, Triakidae) with a redefinition of the family Triakidae and a key to triakid genera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 39 (19): 383-410.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1977. Phyletic relationships of living sharks and rays. In R.G. Northcutt, ed. Recent advances in the biology of sharks. American Zoologist 17(2): 303-322.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1989. Scyliorhinus comoroensis, a new catshark from the Comoro Islands, western Indian Ocean (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Bulletin of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, ser. 4, 1988, 10, sec. A (3): 603-625, fig. 1-10.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Government protection for the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in South Africa. S. African J. Sci. July 1991, 87: 284-285.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1997. Threatened fishes of the world: Glyphis gangeticus (Müller & Henle, 1839)(Carcharhinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 49: 400, ill.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Chondrichthyes. In Gibbons, M. J., et al., The taxonomic richness of South Africa's marine fauna: a crisis at hand. South African Journal of Science, 95(1): 10, Tab. 1.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. An overview of chondrichthyan systematics and biodiversity in southern Africa. Transaction of the Royal Society of South Africa 1999 54(1): 75-120, fig. 1-9, tab. 1-2.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Elasmobranchii, Holocephali. In J. E. Randall & Kelvin K. P. Lim, eds. A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (supp. 8): 577-584.
Compagno, L.J.V., & David A. Ebert. 2007. Southern African skate biodiversity and distribution. Environmental Biology of Fishes, American Elasmobranch Society, Skate Symposium volume, 125-145, tabs. 1-3, figs. 1-8. Published on line and hard copy.
Compagno, L.J.V., D.A. Ebert, & P.D. Cowley. 1991. Distribution of offshore demersal cartilaginous fishes (Class Chondrichthyes) of the west coast of southern Africa, with notes on their systematics. South African Journal of Marine Science 11: 43-139, figs. 1-24.
Compagno, L.J.V., and W. I. Follett. 1986. Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810 (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes): Proposed conservation by the use of the relative precedence procedure. Bullin of Zoological Nomenclature. 43(1): 89-92. (Proposal approved by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Opinion 1459, Bull. Zool. Nomen. 44(3): 216-217, 1987.)
Compagno, L.J.V., & J.A.F. Garrick. 1983. Nasolamia, new genus, for the shark Carcharhinus velox Gilbert, 1898 (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhinidae). Zoological Publications of Victoria University of Wellington, (76), 16 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V., M.D. Gottfried, & S.C. Bowman. 1993. Size and scaling of the giant `megatooth' shark Carcharodon megalodon (Lamnidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3): 31A.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P. C. Heemstra. 1984. Himantura draco, a new species of stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from South Africa, with a key to the Dasyatidae and the first record of Dasyatis kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841) from Southern Africa. J.L.B.Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Special Publication (33), 17 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Philip C. Heemstra. 2007. Electrolux addisoni, a new genus and species of electric ray from the East Coast of South Africa (Rajiformes: Torpedinoidei: Narkidae), with a review of torpedinoid taxonomy. Smithiana, 15-49, figs. 1-19, tabs. 1-9.
Compagno, L.J.V., Freidhelm Krupp, & Kent E. Carpenter. 1996. A new weasel shark of the Genus Paragaleus from the northwestern Indian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 15, 1996: 391-401, figs. 1-4.
Compagno, L.J.V., P.R. Last, J. D. Stevens, & M.N.R. Alava. 2005. Checklist of Philippine cartilaginous fishes. CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania, Report (243): 1-103, fig. 1 (May, 2005).
Compagno, L.J.V., Mark A. Marks, & Ian K. Fergusson. 1997. Threatened fishes of the world: Carcharodon carcharias. Environmental Biology of Fishes 50: 61-62, ill.
Compagno, L.J.V., & J.R. Randall. 1987. Rhinobatos punctifer, a new species of guitarfish (Rhinobatiformes: Rhinobatidae) from the Red Sea, with notes on the Red Sea batoid fauna. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 44(14): 335-342, figs. 1-3.
Compagno, L.J.V., & T.R. Roberts. 1982. Freshwater stingrays (Dasyatidae) of Southeast Asia and New Guinea, with description of a new species of Himantura and reports of unidentified species. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 7(4):321-339.
Compagno, L.J.V., & T.R. Roberts. 1984. Marine and freshwater stingrays (Dasyatidae) of West Africa, with description of a new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, 43: 283-300, fig. 1-10.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. J. Smale, 1985. Paragaleus leucolomatus, a new species of shark (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae) from South Africa, with notes on the systematics of the Family Hemigaleidae. J.L.B.Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Special Publication, (37), 21 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. J. Smale, 1986. Recent records of four warm-water elasmobranchs from the eastern Cape Province, South Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science, 4: 11-15, fig.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S. Springer. 1971. Iago, a new genus of carcharhinid sharks with a redescription of I. omanensis. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, 69(3): 615-626.
Compagno, L.J.V., M. Stehmann, & D. A. Ebert. 1990. Rhinochimaera africana, a new longnose chimaera from Southern Africa, with comments on the systematics and distribution of the genus Rhinochimaera Garman, 1901 (Chondrichthyes, Chimaeriformes, Rhinochimaeridae). South African Journal of Marine Science, 9: 201-222.
Compagno, L.J.V., & John D. Stevens. 1993. Atelomycterus fasciatus n.sp., a new catshark (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from tropical Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 45: 147-169, fig. 1-15, tab. 1-4.
Compagno, L.J.V., & John D. Stevens. 1993. Galeus gracilis n.sp., a new sawtail catshark from Australia, with comments on the systematics of the genus Galeus Rafinesque, 1810 (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 45: 171-194, fig. 1-16, tab. 1-2.
Compagno, L.J.V., & John D. Stevens. 1993. Hemitriakis falcata n.sp. and Hemitriakis abdita n.sp., two new houndsharks (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 45: 195-220, fig. 1-10, tab. 1-4.
Compagno, L.J.V., John D. Stevens, & Peter R. Last. 1999. Australian spotted catsharks of the genus Asymbolus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Part 1: Description of three new species from Western Australia. In P. R. Last, Ed. Australian catsharks of the genus Asymbolus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Report (239): 2-18, fig. 1-3.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P. K. Talwar. 1985. Generic relationship and status of the scyliorhinid shark, Scyliorhinus (Halaelurus) silasi Talwar, 1974 (Chondrichthyes: Selachii, Scyliorhinidae). Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India, 7(1): 37-39, ill.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P. K. Talwar. 1986. On the occurrence of the narrowheaded sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre, 1988)(Chondrichthyes: Hexanchidae) in Indian waters. Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India, 7(2-3): 169-171, ill.
Cowley, P.D, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1993. A taxonomic re-evaluation of the blue stingray from southern Africa (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae). South African Journal of Marine Sciences, 13: 135-149, fig. 1-3.
De Carvalho, Marcelo R., Flávio A. Bockmann, Dalton S.Amorim, Mário Devivo, Mônica De Toledo Piza, Naércio A.Menezes, José L. De Figueiredo, Ricardo M. C. Castro, Anthony C.Gill, John D.McEachran, Leonard J.V. Compagno, Robert C. Schelly, Ralf Britz, John G. Lundberg, Richard P.Vari, and Gareth Nelson. 2005. Revisiting the Taxonomic Impediment. Science 307 (Jan. 21, 2005): 353.
De Carvalho, Marcelo R., L.J.V. Compagno, & D. A. Ebert. 2003. Benthobatis yangi, a new species of blind electric ray from Taiwan (Batoidea, Torpediniformes, Narcinidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 72(3): 923-939, figs.
De Carvalho, Marcelo R., L.J.V. Compagno, & Jonathan K. L. Mee. 2002. Narcine oculifera, a new species of electric ray from the Gulfs of Oman and Aden (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Narcinidae). Copeia 2002, 102 (1): 137-145, figs.
De Carvalho, Marcelo R., Bernard Seret, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2002. A new species of electric ray of the genus Narcine Henle, 1834 from the southwestern Indian Ocean (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Narcinidae). South African Journal of Marine Science, 24: 135-149, figs. 1-7, tab. 1.
Dulvy, Nicholas K. Julia K. Baum, Shelley Clarke, L.J.V.Compagno, Enric Cortés, Andrés Domingo, Sonja Fordham, Sarah Fowler, Malcolm P. Francis, Claudine Gibson, Jimmy Martínez, John A. Musick, Alen Soldo, John D. Stevens, and Sarah Valenti. 2008. You can swim but you can’t hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.43 pp, figs. 1-3, tabs. 1-2, appendix.
Ebert, David A., & L.J.V. Compagno. 2007. Biodiversity and systematics of skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei). Environmental Biology of Fishes, American Elasmobranch Society, Skate Symposium volume, 111-124, tabs. 1-3, figs. 1-5, Appendix 1. Published on line in April 2007 and in hard copy.
Ebert, D.A., & L.J.V. Compagno, 2009. Chlamydoselachus africana, a new species of frilled shark from southern Africa (Chondrichthyes, Hexanchiformes, Chlamydoselachidae). Zootaxa, 2713: 1-18, figs. 1-6, tabs. 1-7.
Ebert, D.A., L.J.V. Compagno, & L. J. Natanson. 1987. Biological notes on the sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus. California Fish and Game, 73(2): 117-123.
Ebert, D. A., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. D. Cowley. 1992. A preliminary investigation of the feeding ecology of squaloid sharks (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes) off the west coast of southern Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science, 12: 601-609, fig. 1.
Ebert, D. A., L.J.V. Compagno, & P. D. Cowley. 1996. A preliminary investigation of the feeding ecology of catsharks (Scyliorhinidae) off the west coast of southern Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science, 17: 233-240, Fig. 1-2, tabl. 1-6.
Ebert, D. A., L.J.V. Compagno, & P.D. Cowley. 2006. Reproductive biology of catsharks (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) from off the west coast of southern Africa. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Journal of Marine Science, 63: 1053-1065, figs. 1-7, tab. 1. Published on Elsevier Science Direct on line in 2006, in print in the same year.
Ebert, D. A., L.J.V. Compagno, and P.D. Cowley. 2007-2008. Aspects of the reproductive biology of skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes: Rajoidei) from Southern African waters. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Journal of Marine Science, 65: 81-102, figs. 1-21, tabs. 1-2. Published on line in 2007, published in print in 2008.
.Ebert, D. A., P. D. Cowley, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1991. A preliminary investigation of the feeding ecology of skates (Batoidea: Rajidae) off the west coast of southern Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science, 10: 71-81, fig. 1-10.
Ebert, D. A., P. D. Cowley, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2002. First record of the longnose spiny dogfish, Squalus blainvillei (Squalidae), and deepwater stingray, Plesiobatis daviesi (Urolophidae), from South African waters. South African Journal of Marine Science 24: 355-357, tabs. 1-2.
Endicott, M., L.J.V. Compagno, & D.J. Agnew. 2005. Identification of Amblyraja Species in the longline fishery in Sub-Area 48.3. CCAMLR. CCAMLR memo, WG-FSA-02/??: 1-13, figs. 1-5, tab. 1-3.
FAO Marine Resources Services. 2004. Report of the FAO ad hoc expert advisory panel for the assessment of proposals to amend Appendices I and II of CITES concerning commercially-exploited aquatic species. FAO Fisheries Report(748): i-v, 1-54, figs. LJVC served on the panel to advise on white shark assessment for CITES.
Fergusson Ian K., Kenneth J. Graham, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2007. Distribution, abundance and biology of the smalltooth sandtiger shark Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 37 pp., tabs. 1-6, figs. 1-9.
Fergusson, I.K., L.J.V. Compagno, & M.A. Marks. 2000. Predation by white sharks Carcharodon carcharias (Chondrichthyes: Lamnidae) upon chelonians, with new records from the Mediterranean Sea and a first record of the ocean sunfish Mola mola (Osteichthyes: Molidae) as stomach contents. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 58(4): 447-453, fig. 1-2, tab. 1.
Freihofer, W.C., L.J.V. Compagno, & W. Rogers. 1977. Additional notes on the use of the Sihler technique of staining nerves of small, whole specimens of fishes and other vertebrates. Copeia, 1977 (3): 587-588.
Gifford, Andrew, L.J.V. Compagno, & Marie Levine. 2007. Aerial Surveys of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) off the East Coast of Southern Africa. In Tennille R. Irvine & John K. Keesing, eds. The First International Whale Shark Conference: Promoting International Collaboration in Whale Shark Conservation, Science and Management. Conference Overview, Abstracts and Supplementary Proceedings. International Whale Shark Conference, 9-12 May 2005, CSIRO Australia: 53-57, fig. 1, tabs. 1-4.
Gifford, A., L.J.V. Compagno, M. Levine & A. Antoniou. 2007. Satellite tracking of whale sharks using tethered tags. In T.R. Irvine and J.K. Keesing (Eds.) Whale Sharks: Science, Conservation and Management. Proceedings of the First International Whale Shark Conference, 9-12 May 2005 Australia. Fisheries Research 84(2007): 17-24, tab. 1, figs. 1-8.
Gruber, S. H., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1981. Taxonomic status and biology of the bigeye thresher, Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1839). Fishery Bulletin, U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, 79(4): 617-640.
Heemstra, P. C., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1989. Uterine cannibalism and placental viviparity in the coelacanth? A skeptical view. South African Journal of Science, 85 (8): 485-486, fig. 1-2.
Hubbs, C.L., L.J.V. Compagno, & W. I. Follett. 1976. Comment on the proposed suppression of Rhiniodon Smith, 1828, in favor of Rhincodon Smith, 1829. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 33(2): 70-71.
Human, Brett A., & L.J.V. Compagno. 2006. Description of Haploblepharus kistnasamyi, a new catshark (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa, 1318: 41–58, figs. 1-7, tab. 1, append. 1-2. Published on September 21, 2006 on line as a PDF.
Human, B.A., P. Owen, L.J.V. Compagno, & E.H. Harley. 2005-2006. Testing morphologically based phylogenetic theories within the cartilaginous fishes with molecular data, with special reference to the catshark family (Chondrichthyes; Scyliorhinidae) and the interrelationships within them. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39(2006), 384-391, tabs. 1-7, figs. 1-3. Published on line 2005, in print 2006.
Kemper, J.M., D.A. Ebert, L.J.V. Compagno, & D.A. Didier. 2010. Chimaera notafricana sp. nov. (Chondrichthyes: Chimaeriformes: Chimaeridae), a new species of chimaera from southern Africa. Zootaxa 2532: 55–63, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2
Kemper, J.M., D.A. Ebert, D.A. Didier, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2010. Description of a new species of chimaerid, Chimaera bahamaensis from the Bahamas. Bulletin of Marine Science, 86 (3): 649-659, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2.
Last, P.R., J.A. Chidlow, & L.J.V. Compagno, 2006. A new wobbegong shark, Orectolobus hutchinsi n. sp. (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from southwestern Australia. Zootaxa 1239 (21 June 2006) 35-48, figs. 1-7, tab. 1
Last, P.R., L.J.V. Compagno, & K. Nakaya. 2004. Rhinobatos nudidorsalis sp. nov., a new species of shovelnose ray (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae) from the Mascarene Ridge, central Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Research (Japan), 51: 153-158, figs 1-6.
McEachran, J.D. & L.J.V. Compagno. 1979. A further description of Gurgesiella furvescens with comments on the interrelationships of Gurgesiellidae and Pseudorajidae (Pisces: Rajoidei). Bulletin of Marine Science, 29(4): 530-553.
McEachran, J. D. & L.J.V. Compagno. 1980. A new species of skate from the southwestern Atlantic, Gurgesiella dorsalifera, sp. nov. Archiv für Fischerei Wissenschaftlichte, 31(1): 1-14.
McEachran, J.D., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1982. Interrelationships of and within Breviraja based on anatomical studies (Pisces, Rajoidei). Bulletin of Marine Science, 32(2): 399-425.
Marshall, Andrea D., L.J.V. Compagno, & Michael B. Bennett. 2009. Redescription of the genus Manta with resurrection of Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Chondrichthyes; Myliobatoidei; Mobulidae). Zootaxa 2301: 1–28, figs. 1-16, tabs. 1-2.
Mollet, H.F., A. D. Testi, L.J.V. Compagno, & M. Francis. 2002, Refutation of identification of a lamnid shark embryo by Sanzo (1912) as Carcharodon carcharias. Fishery Bulletin, 100(4) 865-875, figs. 1-2, tab. 1-3.
Moore, Alec B.M., L.J.V. Compagno, & Ian K. Fergusson. 2007. The Persian/Arabian Gulf’s sole great white shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) record from Kuwait: misidentification of a sandtiger shark Carcharias taurus (Lamniformes: Odontaspididae). Zootaxa 1591: 67–68, fig. 1.
Natanson, L.J., S.P. Wintner, F. Johansson, A. Piercy, P. Campbell, A. De Maddalena, S.J.B. Gulak, B. Human, F.C. Fulgosi, D.A. Ebert, F. Hemida, F.H. Mollen, S. Vanni, G.H. Burgess, L.J.V. Compagno & A. Wedderburn-Maxwell. 2008. Ontogenetic vertebral growth patterns in the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus. Marine Ecology Progress Series 361:267-278.
Randall, B. M., R. M. Randall, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1988. Injuries to jackass penguins (Spheniscus demersus): evidence for shark involvement. Journal of Zoology, London (1988), 214: 589-599, fig. 1, pls. 1-2.
Randall, John E., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1995. A review of the guitarfishes of the genus Rhinobatos (Rajiformes; Rhinobatidae) from Oman, with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, University of Singapore, 43(2): 289-298, fig. 1-4.
Raschi, W., J.A. Musick & L.J.V. Compagno. 1982. Hypoprion bigelowi, a synonym of Carcharhinus signatus (Pisces: Carcharhinidae), with a description of ontogenetic heterodonty in this species and notes on its natural history. Copeia, 1982(1): 102-109.
Richardson, A.J., G. Maharaj, L. J. V. Compagno, R.W. Leslie, D.A. Ebert & M.J. Gibbons. 2000. Abundance, distribution, morphometrics, reproduction and diet of the Izak Catshark Holohalaelurus regani. Journal of Fish Biology, 56: 553-576, fig. 1-13.
Seigel, J. A., & L.J.V. Compagno, 1986. New records of the ragged-tooth shark (Odontaspis ferox) from California waters. California Fish and Game, 72(3): 172-176.
Smale, M. J., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1997 (issued Aug. 1998). The life history of two southern African smoothhound sharks, Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Mustelus palumbes Smith, 1957 (Pisces: Triakidae). South African Journal of Marine Science 18: 229-248, fig. 1-17, tab.
Smale, M.J., L.J.V. Compagno, & B.A. Human. 2002. First megamouth shark for the Western Indian Ocean and South Africa. S.A. J. Science 98:349-350, fig.
Taylor, L.R., L.J.V. Compagno & P.J. Struhsaker. 1983. Megamouth--A new species, genus and family of lamnoid sharks, Megachasma pelagios (Family Megachasmidae), from the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 43(8): 87-110.
Varoujean, D. J., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1973. Magnificent frigatebirds in Monterey Bay, California. Auk, 90: 192-193, fig. 1.
White, William T., Peter R. Last, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2005. Description of a new species of weasel shark, Hemigaleus australiensis n. sp. (Carcharhiniformes: Hemigaleidae) from Australian waters. Zootaxa. 37-49, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-2.
Yano, K., J.D. Stevens, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2004. A review of the systematics of the sleeper shark genus Somniosus with redescriptions of Somniosus (Somniosus) antarcticus and S. (Rhinoscymnus) longus (Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Somniosidae). Ichthyological Research, Japan, 51(4): 360-373, figs. 1-10.
Yano, K., J.D. Stevens, & L.J.V. Compagno. 2007. Distribution, reproduction and feeding of the Greenland shark Somniosus (Somniosus) microcephalus, with notes on two other sleeper sharks, Somniosus (Somniosus) pacificus and Somniosus (Somniosus) antarcticus. Journal of Fish Biology 70 (2), 374–390, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-7.

Reviews of books and papers in journals
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Review of Sharks and Stingrays, by Rudy van der Elst. African Wildlife, 41(4): 194-195.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1993. Review of Great white shark. The definitive look at the most terrifying creature in the seas. by R. Ellis and J.E. McCosker. Reviews of Fish Biology and Fisheries 3(2): 188-191.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995. Book review: Sharks and rays of Australia, Peter R. Last and John D. Stevens. Rev. Fish Biol. Fisher. 5(1): 55-57.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1996. Review: Sharks of Hawai'I. Their biology and cultural significance. By Leighton Taylor. Copeia 1996(1): 231-233.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2005. Book review. Coastal fishes of southern Africa, Phil and Elaine Heemstra. African Journal of Marine Sciences, 27(1): 343.
Heemstra, P. C., & L. J. V. Compagno. 1988. A review of Rudy van der Elst's A guide to the common sea fishes of southern Africa (second edition). African Wildlife 42(6): 342-343, 345.

Red list evaluations, International Union For The Conservation Of Nature (IUCN), Shark Specialist Group, published 2000 (Web and CD-ROM), 2005 (in print), and 2007 (to be published on line at www.redlist.org).
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Carcharhinus borneensis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Carcharhinus hemiodon [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Carcharhinus leiodon [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Dasyatis garouaensis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Dasyatis laosensis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Glyphis gangeticus [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Glyphis glyphis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Hemitriakis leucoperiptera [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Himantura fluviatilis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Himantura oxyrhyncha [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Himantura signifer [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Leptocharias smithii [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Megachasma pelagios [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Notorynchus cepedianus [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Poroderma africanum [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Scylliogaleus quecketti [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Taeniura lymma [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Triakis acutipinna [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Triakis megaloptera [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Urogymnus asperrimus [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Urogymnus ukpam [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. Electrolux addisoni [species evaluation.] IUCN Species Survival Commission, completed at 2007 Batangas Red List West-Central Pacific workshop and to be published on line in 2007.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S.F. Cook. 2000. Dalatias licha [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S.F. Cook. 2000. Himantura chaophraya [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S.F. Cook. 2000. Pristis microdon [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., S.F.Cook & M. I. Oetinger. 2000. Anoxypristis cuspidata [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., S.F.Cook & M. I. Oetinger. 2000. Pristis zijsron [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. Kroese. 2000. Haploblepharus edwardsi [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. Kroese. 2000. Haploblepharus fuscus [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. Kroese. 2000. Scyliorhinus capensis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., P. R. Last & J.D. Stevens. 2000. Heteroscyllium colcloughi [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Compagno, L.J.V., & J. Musick. 2000. Pseudocarcharias kamoharai [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Cook, S.F., & L.J.V. Compagno. 2000. Hexanchus griseus [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Cook, S.F., & L.J.V. Compagno. 2000. Pristis pristis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Cook, S.F., L.J.V. Compagno & P. R. Last. 2000. Pristis clavata [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Cook, S.F., L.J.V. Compagno, & M. I. Oetinger. 2000. Pristis perotteti [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Cook, S.F., G. Zorzi & L.J.V. Compagno. 2000. Bathyraja abyssicola [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Fergusson, I., L.J.V. Compagno & M. Marks. 2000. Carcharodon carcharias [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Simpfendorfer, C., & L.J.V. Compagno. 2000. Hypogaleus hyugaensis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
In addition LJVC submitted data for several species at the Abington 2007 and Batangas 2007 workshops, including a checklist of pelagic elasmobranchs for the former workshop and additions to a regional checklist for the latter workshop.

Web publications
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Sharks, fisheries and biodiversity. Shark Conference 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, at: http://www.westpacfisheries.net/sharkcon/documents.html. See Reports below.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. White shark, Carcharodon carcharias. Pacific Shark Research Center, Featured elasmobranch, October 2007, at:
http://psrc.mlml.calstate.edu/elamon.htm.
Dulvy, Nicholas K. Julia K. Baum, Shelley Clarke, L.J.V.Compagno, Enric Cortés, Andrés Domingo, Sonja Fordham, Sarah Fowler, Malcolm P. Francis, Claudine Gibson, Jimmy Martínez, John A. Musick, Alen Soldo, John D. Stevens, and Sarah Valenti. 2007. Global status of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays. Lenfest Oceanic Programs, Research Series, Dec. 2007, 6 pp. illustrated. See http://www.lenfestocean.org.

Short technical, semipopular and popular articles
Compagno, L.J.V. 1982. The megamouth shark. Ichthos 1: 6.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. New stingray described from Natal. Ichthos 5: 9.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. Zambezi shark caught off Fish River. Ichthos 5: 18.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. New shark collected from Kosi Bay. Ichthos 7: 5.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. What shark? White shark! Ichthos 7: 18-19.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. The mysterious Ganges shark. Ichthos 7: 25-26.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1986. Sharks of the eastern Cape coast. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol., Ichthos Field Guide (1): 27 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Rare pelagic stingray caught off Mossel Bay. Ichthos. (13): 6.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. The French connection: return of the Ganges shark. Ichthos (13): 8.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. First Eastern Cape record of the bignose shark. Ichthos, (14): 4.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1987. Sharks of the Eastern Cape. Under Water, Summer, 1987: 30.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. The fear factor...irrational attitudes to bather protection. African Wildlife 42(3): 177-178.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. The birth of a manta ray? Underwater 1988 (2nd Quarter): 19, ill.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1988. Shark diversity in southern Africa. The Naturalist, 32(3): 20-29, fig. 1-11.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990. White shark conservation in South Africa. Chondros 2(4): 2-3.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. A review of the general biology and conservation of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). In T. Condon, ed. Great white sharks-Carcharodon carcharias. A perspective. Under Water (17) Durban, May-June 1991, 27 pp., ill.: fossil history of the white shark, 28-29; introduction, distribution and habitat, 30-33; abundance and movements, 37-38; behavior and sociobiology, 44-45; feeding ecology, 48-50; attacks on divers by white sharks in California, 52-53; causes of mortality to white sharks, 71-73; conservation of the great white shark, 90-93, preliminary suggestions on managing the white shark in southern Africa, 94; the white shark research program in South Africa, 96, 98-100.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Tagged white sharks. ORI Tagging News (7): 7.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. Let's save the sharks. Conserva Nov./Dec. 1991, 6(6): 7-9, ill.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1991. White shark gains government protection in South Africa. Chondros 2(7): 2-3.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1992. New direction for the Natal Sharks Board: Development of an electronic shark barrier for potential use in Natal, South Africa. Chondros 3(1): 1-4.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1994. Note: Record of bigeye thresher, Alopias superciliosus, from off Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Chondros 5(2): 10-11.
Compagno, L.J.V., & M. Boon. 1991. Jaws & laws. Muse News 5(6): 1.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S. F. Cook. 1995. Freshwater elasmobranchs: A questionable future. Shark News, 4-6, fig. 1.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S. F. Cook. 1995. Through the glass darkly: a troubled future for freshwater elasmobranchs. Chondros 6(1): 7-9.
Compagno, L.J.V., & S. F. Cook. 1995. Status of the giant freshwater stingray (whipray) Himantura chaophraya (Monkolprasit and Roberts, 1990). Shark News (Newsl. IUCN SSG) (5): 5, ill.
Compagno, L.J.V., & D.A. Ebert. 1987. The Shark Research Center. Ichthyos (15): 7.
Compagno, L.J.V., & I.K. Fergusson. 1994. IICES: The International Initiative for Conservation of White Sharks. Shark News 1: 3.
Compagno, L.J.V., & Alison Kock. 2006. Cape Town’s great white hype. African Wildlife 60(4): 19-21, illustrated.
Cook, Sid F., & L.J.V. Compagno. 1994. Preliminary Thailand field trip notes: November-December 1993. Chondros 5(1): 8-13, fig. 1-2.
Cook, Sid F., L.J.V. Compagno & M. Oetinger. 1995. Status of the largetooth sawfish Pristis perottetti Müller & Henle, 1841. Shark News (Newsl. IUCN SSG), (4): 5, ill

Partial list of Powerpoint presentations.
Compagno, L.J.V., & P.C. Heemstra, 2001. Snouts! Revision of the sixgill stingray family Hexatrygonidae. 18 slides. Presented by L.J.V. Compagno at the 6th Indo-Pacific Fishes Conference, Durban, May 24, 2001. SRC Presentation 2001-05-24.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Conservation status of white sharks and their role in a healthy ecosystem. 27 slides. Presented by L.J.V. Compagno at the Cape Town White Shark workshop, ‘Finding a balance between white shark conservation and recreational safety’, 29 and 30 May 2006, sponsored by the World-Wide Fund for Nature, City of Cape Town, and Marine and Coastal Development. SRC Presentation 2006-08-17. See also the backup report, L.J.V. Compagno, 2006. Understanding white sharks: White sharks, Cape Town and Conservation. SRC Report-2006-06-08, 22 pp., fig.
Compagno, L.J.V., & D. A. Ebert. 2006. Southern African skate biodiversity. 20 slides. Completed in July 2006 and presented by D. A. Ebert at the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists – American Elasmobranch Society meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA in July 2006. SRC Presentation 2006-07-07. A paper covering the subject was published as an extension to this presentation.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. Shark World. 32 slides. Presented by LJVC at the Natural History Museum, London, as an informal talk in the Department of Ichthyology, Darwin Center, on April 23, 2007. SRC Presentation 2007-04-23.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Understanding white sharks (2). 56 slides. Presented by LJVC at the MTN Science Center, Canal Walk, South Africa, on August 17, 2006. SRC Presentation 2006-08-17.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. Travels with Glyphis (Glyphis systematics) 13 slides. Presented by LJVC at the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society meeting at Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia on October 20, 2007. SRC Presentation 2007-10-20. A paper covering the subject was published in 2008.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. Chondrichthyan biodiversity in southern Africa. 35 slides. Presented by LJVC at the South African National Institute of Biodiversity, Kirstenbosch, South Africa on November 9, 2007. SRC Presentation 2007-11-09.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. Great white shark – behavioral complexity of the beast. 24 slides. Presented by LJVC at the Special Symposium, Comparative Ecology and Behavior, 17th Bienniel Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Cape Town, November, 2007. SRC Presentation 2007-11-28. An expanded version is in preparation along with a paper covering the subject.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2007. Working in marine science? 17 slides. Invited talk, University of Cape Town, April 24, 2007, and modified version at MTN Science Center, September 9, 2007. SRC Presentation 2007-04-24.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2008. Shark centers: Research or otherwise? 24 slides. Invited plenary talk by LJVC, Oceania Chondrichthyan Society, Australian Museum, Sydney, September 21, 2008. SRC Presentation 2008-09-21.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2009. Classification and phylogeny of sharks from a broad perspective. 56 slides. Presented by LJVC at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, February 2009. SRC Presentation 2009-02-26. Developed and expanded from an earlier talk of the same name in Okinawa in 2004, 38 slides.

Reports
Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya, L.J.V. Compagno & Terri Haag. 2002. Shark World. Origin, evolution and diversity of sharks. A proposal for a major new display at the South African Museum, Iziko – Museums of Cape Town. Application for funding, July 2002. 13 pp, illustrated, available as SharkWorld.pdf.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1990. A review of the general biology and conservation of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1990-12-02: 1-27. Presented to Sea Fisheries Research Institute in support of protection for the white shark, which was granted by the Ministry of Environmental Affairs in 1991.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1995, 2000. Checklist of Philippine Chondrichthyes. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1995-11-07, Revised 2000-02-22. Revised version presented to the WWF Philippine shark biodiversity project, February 23, 2000, incorporated in published checklist of Philippine Chondrichthyes.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Diversity of cartilaginous fishes in the Western Cape and southwestern part of the Eastern Cape. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1999-03-18: 1-16, fig. 1-2. Prepared for Prof. C. Griffiths, University of Cape Town, as part of a WWF project on biodiversity of the south coast of South Africa.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Checklist of cartilaginous fishes from Belize. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1999-08-04: 7 pp. Presented to FAO/ICLARM Belize workshop on Western Central Atlantic species sheets.
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Conservation status of the basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, in southern Africa. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1999-09-20a, 10 pp. Prepared for the Chondrichthyian Working Group, Marine and Coastal Management (Sea Fisheries Research Institute).
Compagno, L.J.V. 1999. Conservation status of the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in southern Africa. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1999-09-20b, 13 pp. Prepared for the Chondrichthyian Working Group, Marine and Coastal Management (Sea Fisheries Research Institute).
Compagno, L.J.V. 2000. Sharks, fisheries and biodiversity. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 2000-02-21, 1-15. Prepared as part of a presentation for Shark Conference 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 21-24, 2000, for the Barbara Delano Foundation and for publication on the WWW at:
http://www.westpacfisheries.net/sharkcon/documents.html
Compagno, L.J.V. 2001. White shark research at the Shark Research Center (SRC), South African Museum. SRC Report 20010808, pp. 1-6. Prepared at the behest of the Cooperative White Shark Research Program, for use on the internet.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2001. Selected bibliography of skate biology (Squalomorphii; Rajiformes; Rajoidei). SRC Report 2001-09-27, 15 pp. Prepared for M. Endicott, Imperial College, London, in support of a research program on South Georgia skates.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Shark systematics and biodiversity in South Africa. SRC Report 2002-02-04, 37 pp, 8 tabs., 3 appendices. Prepared for Marine and Coastal Management in support of the South African Plan of Action for managing and conserving sharks.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2002. Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828. Whale shark. Position paper, 12th Conference of the Parties to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Santiago, Chile, November 26, 2002. Prepared at the behest of the Shark Research Institute, New Jersey, and presented to CITES by the Philippine delegation to the conference. SRC Report 2002-11-26, 2 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Checklist of Chondrichthyes from South America. SRC Report 2003-04-04, 10 pp. Prepared at the behest of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group, for the IUCN Red List workshop in Manaus, Brazil.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2004. Biodiversity of cartilaginous fishes. Lists and numbers of chondrichthyan species, genera, families, and higher groups, including synonyms for various taxonomic levels and fossil taxa. SRC Report-2004-09-15, in the form of a 2 megabyte Excel workbook termed Chondrichthyan_Biodiversity.xls.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2004. Position paper: White shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and CITES. Presented to the CITES CoP13 meetings in Bangkok, Thailand under the aegis of the Shark Research Institute. Two versions: SRC Report-2004-10-08 and SRC Report-2004-10-12.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Conservation of the bull or Zambezi shark, Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes in Müller & Henle, 1839): an undiscovered country? SRC Report-2006-04-20. Presented to the Sharklife Zambezi shark workshop at the Natal Sharks Board, April 20 2006.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Understanding white sharks: White sharks, Cape Town and Conservation. SRC Report-2006-06-08, 22 pp., fig. Presented to World Wide Fund for Nature as backup document for presentation (see above) on white shark conservation in Cape Town on May 29, 2006.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Position paper: CITES listing for the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810) also termed ragged-tooth shark and grey nurse shark (Family Odontaspididae). SRC Report 2006-06-20, 2 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Iziko Shark Research Center. 2006 summary. SRC Report-2006-06-23a, 2 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. 2006. Iziko Shark Research Center. List of publications. SRC Report-2006-06-23b, 38 pp.
Compagno, L.J.V., & B.A. Human. 2003. Checklist of chondrichthyans for the Subequatorial African region, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic Oceans. Revised version, July 18, 2003. SRC Report-2003-07-18
Compagno, L. J. V., M. J. Smale, S.F.J. Dudley, & S.F. Cook. 1994. International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Shark Specialist Group. Preliminary report for The Subequatorial African Region, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic Oceans (Jan. 11, 1994). Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC Report 1994-01-11: 1-57, 17 figs., 12 tables. Submitted to the IUCN Shark Specialist Group. A revised version with additional authors (see above) was prepared for publication in 2002 and was published in 2006 (see above).
Compagno, L.J.V., & Bruce J. Welton. 2003. Checklist of Guaymas Chondrichthyes. Shark Research Center, South African Museum, SRC report 2003-05-14, 4 pp. Prepared at the behest of the Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing, California, for their studies on elasmobranch biodiversity in the Gulf of California.
Cook, S.F., & Compagno, L.J.V. 1996. Preliminary field report and recommendations for structuring the freshwater and marine inshore elasmobranch project in Sabah, east Malaysia. Chondros res. rept. 9602A, 13 pp. Presented to the Sabah department of Fisheries.
Fergusson, Ian K, & L.J.V. Compagno. 1994. Bibliography of chondrichthyan fishes in the north-east and eastern-central Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. 1st Edition. European Shark Research Bureau/Shark Research Center, private pub. 67 pp.
Sauer, W.H.H., T.A. Shipton, A.J. Booth, S. Walmsley, M.J. Smale, S. Dudley, L.J.V. Compagno, & A.J. Penney. 2003. Shark Management Plan. Prepared for Marine and Coastal Management, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa. I-vii, 1-111, figs., tabs., Appendices 1-4. Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science.

Partial list of publications of SRC graduate students:
Alexander, R. L. 1991. Venous drainage of the pelvic fins of rays (Subclass Elasmobranchii: Superorder Batoidea). Journal of Morphology 207(2): 135-147, fig. 1-7.
Alexander, R. A. 1991. The use of contrast radiography in the study of elasmobranch vascular systems. Copeia, 1991 (3): 850-854
Alexander, R. A. 1991. Venous drainage of the pectoral fins of batoids (Subclass Elasmobranchii: Superorder Batoidea). Journal of Morphology. 209: 1-14, fig. 1-7.
Alexander, R. L. 1995. Evidence of a counter-current heat exchanger in the ray, Mobula tarapacana (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii: Batoidea: Myliobatiformes). Journal of Zoology London, 237, 377-384, pl. 1-3.
Alexander, R. L. 1996. Evidence of brain-warming in the mobulid rays, Mobula tarapacana and Manta birostris (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii: Batoidea: Myliobatiformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Soc. (London), 118: 151-164, fig. 1-5.
Alexander, R. L. 1998. Blood supply to the eyes and brain of lamniform sharks (Lamniformes). Journal of Zoology, London (1998) 245: 363-369, fig. fig. 1-3.
Collier, R. M., M. A. Marks & R. W. Warner. 1996. White shark attacks on inanimate objects along the northwest coast of North America. In Great White Sharks. The biology of Carcharodon carcharias, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. Academic Press, pp. 217-222.
Ebert, D. A. 1988. In search of the sixgill shark. Count the gills! Underwater, 1988, 16-17.
Ebert, D. A. 1992. Observations on the predatory behaviour of the sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus. South African Journal of Marine Science 11: 455-465, fig. 1-5.
Ebert, D. A. 1992. Diet of the sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus in the temperate coastal waters of southern Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science 11: 565-572, fig. 1-5.
Ebert, D. A. 1994. Diet of the sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus off southern Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science 14: 213-218, fig. 1-4.
Ebert, D. A. 1996. Biology of the sevengill shark, Notorynchus cepedianus, in the temperate coastal waters of southern Africa. South African Journal of Marine Science 17: 93-103, fig. 1-9.
Ebert, D. A. 2002. Ontogenetic changes in the diet of the sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus). Marine and Freshwater Research, Australia, 53: 517-523, fig. 1, tabs. 1-5.
Ebert, D. A. 2002. Some observations on the reproductive biology of the sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) from southern African waters. South African Journal of Marine Science 24: 359-363, figs. 1-3.
Ebert, D. A. 2003. Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. Illustrations by Mathew D. Squillante. University of California Press. California Natural History Guides (71), pp. 1-297, 92 line drawings, 69 color Illustrations, 5 tables, 2 maps, forward by L.J.V. Compagno.
Goldman, K., & B. Human. 2000. Lamna ditropis [species evaluation]. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Red List 2000, http://www.redlist.org and CD-ROM.
Human, B. A. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the catshark genus Poroderma Smith, 1837 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Zootaxa 1229: 1-32, figs. 1-8.
Human, B. A. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the catshark genus Holohalaelurus Fowler 1934 (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1315: 1–56, figs. 1-17, figs. 1-5, append. 1. Published on-line September 2006.
Marks, M.A., R. K. Brooke, & A. M. Gildenhuys. 1997. Cape fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus predation on Cape cormorants Phalacrocorax capensis and other birds at Dyer Island, South Africa. Marine Ornithology 25 (1-2): 9-12, figs. 1-2.
O'Riain, M. J., J. U. M. Jarvis, R. L. Alexander, R. Buffenstein & C. Peters. 2000. Morphological castes in a vertebrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97(24), Nov. 27: 13194-13197.
Walter, J.P., and D. A. Ebert. 1991. Preliminary estimates of age of the bronze whaler Carcharhinus brachyurus (Chondrichthyes, Carcharhinidae) from southern Africa, with a review of some life history parameters. South African Journal of Marine Science 10 37-44.

Theses and honors projects of SRC graduate students:
Alexander, R. L. 2000. Anatomical variation in the arterial systems of myliobatiform rays (Batoidea: Myliobatiformes) and lamniform sharks (Galeomorphii: Lamniformes). Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, 211 pp., 42 figs., tabs. 1-8.
Dainty, A.. M. 2002. Biology and ecology of four catshark species in the Southwestern Cape, South Africa. Unpub. M.Sc. thesis, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 108 pp. To be published as several journal articles.
De Vries, Marlee. 2007. University of the Western Cape, honors on a new species of Etmopterus from South Africa in 2007.
Ebert, D. A. 1990. The taxonomy, biogeography and biology of cow and frilled sharks (Chondrichthyes: Hexanchiformes). Unpub. Ph.D. thesis, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 308 pp.
Human, B.A. 2003. Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of some Southern African Catsharks (Scyliorhinidae; Chondrichthyes). PhD Thesis. Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town. xii, 257 pp + appendices.
Kock, A. 2002. Predatory activity of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) around Seal Island – False Bay. Unpublished Honors Project, for B.Sc. degree (honors), University of Cape Town, 34 pp., figs. 1-5. To be published as a journal article.
Kock, A. 2002. Preliminary identification of Neogene fossil shark teeth from the Varswater Formation of the west coast of South Africa. Unpublished Honors Project, for B.Sc. degree (honors), University of Cape Town, 46 pp., figs. 1-14, tabs. 1-9. To be published as a journal article with L.J.V. Compagno as coauthor.
Louw, E. 2002. Food-associated conditioning in the smoothhound shark Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758). Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, Stellenbosch University, xiv + 95 pp.

Publications in press, 2010:
Compagno, L.J.V. Sharks of the World. Volume 1. Hexanchiformes, Squaliformes, Squatiniformes, and Pristiophoriformes. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the shark species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fisheries Purposes In preparation and in press, 2008.
Compagno, L.J.V. Sharks of the World. Volume 3. Carcharhiniformes. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the shark species known to date. FAO Species Catalogue for Fisheries Purposes. In preparation and in press, 2008.
Compagno, L.J.V. Sharks. Technical terms and measurements. Key to families occurring in the area. List of orders, families and species occurring in the Area. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 15 manuscript pp. This and 25 other book chapters of the Eastern Central Atlantic species guide (182 MS pages) were submitted in 2004, were used in a FAO workshop in Tenarife, Canary Islands, in July 2004, and have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication; they were completed in early 2007 and are to be published in 2007.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Hexanchiformes. Chlamydoselachidae. Frilled sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Hexanchidae. Cowsharks, sixgill and sevengill sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 5 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Squaliformes. Echinorhinidae. Bramble sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 2 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Squalidae. Dogfish sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 8 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Centrophoridae. Gulper sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 11 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Etmopteridae. Lantern sharks (black dogfishes). In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 6 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Somniosidae. Sleeper sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 8 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Oxynotidae. Rough sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 4 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Dalatiidae. Kitefin sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 5 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Squatiniformes. Squatinidae. Angel sharks (sand devils). In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 6 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Lamniformes. Mitsukurinidae. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 2 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Odontaspididae. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 6 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Pseudocarchariidae. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Megachasmidae. Megamouth sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Alopiidae. Thresher sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 5 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Cetorhinidae. Basking sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 2 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Lamnidae. Mackerel sharks, makos, white sharks, porbeagles. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 8 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Orectolobiformes. Ginglymostomatidae. Nurse sharks (tawny sharks). In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Rhincodontidae. Whale sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Order Carcharhiniformes. Scyliorhinidae. Catsharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 8 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Pseudotriakidae. False catsharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 2 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Leptochariidae. Barbeled houndsharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Triakidae. Houndsharks (smoothhounds, topes) In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 9 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Hemigaleidae. Weasel sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 3 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Carcharhinidae. Requiem sharks (ground sharks, blue sharks, sharpnose sharks). In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 41 manuscript pp.
Compagno, L.J.V. Sphyrnidae. Hammerhead and bonnethead sharks. In K. Carpenter, M. Lambeouf & P. Oliver, eds. The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO species guide for fishery purposes 1: 8 manuscript pp.
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Moore, Alec B.M., Laith A. Jawad, L.J.V. Compagno, Ssadek A. Hussein, Kamel K. Fahad, & Dhia A. Udda. Report of a bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) in a southern Iraq canal, with a review of euryhaline sharks in the northwesternmost Gulf. Iraq J. Science.
Walsh, J.H., D.A. Ebert, & L.J.V. Compagno. Squatina caillieti sp. nov., a new species of angel shark (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae) from the Philippine Islands. Zootaxa, 19 MS pp., figs. 1-6, tab. 1. Submitted to Zootaxa.
White, W. T., L.J.V. Compagno, & Dharmadi. Hemitriakis indroyonoi sp. nov., a new species of houndshark from Indonesia (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae).19 MS pp., figs., tabs. 1-2. Submitted to Zootaxa.

Works in preparation (2010).
Ebert, D. A., W. T. White & L.J.V. Compagno.Validation of Squalus suckleyi as distinct from S. acanthias.
Fergusson, Ian K., L.J.V. Compagno, Kenneth Graham, Fadi Fakhoury, Walid Noshie & Wissam Noshie. Behaviour of the smalltooth sandtiger shark Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspididae), with comparative subsurface observations from the Mediterranean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
McCosker, John D., Leonard J.V. Compagno, & Carole C. Baldwin. Elevation of the catshark subgenus Bythaelurus (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) with the description of a new species, B. giddingsi, from the Galapagos Islands. To be submitted to the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Paper in limbo:
Compagno, L.J.V., Gruber, S.H., Nelson, D.R., & Zahuranec, B. Dangerous sharks of the world. U.S. Off. Naval Res.

Papers withdrawn from the 1993 white shark symposium volume
Compagno, L.J.V. The history and current status of research on the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae). 1993 white shark symposium volume, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. University of California Press.
Compagno, L.J.V. Population biology of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae). 1993 white shark symposium volume, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. University of California Press.
Compagno, L.J.V., and S. Cook. Preliminary notes on the behavior of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae). 1993 white shark symposium volume, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. University of California Press.
Note: Original titles of these papers as submitted were:
Compagno, L.J.V. A review of research on the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae). 1993 white shark symposium volume, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. University of California Press.
Compagno, L.J.V. Distribution, movements, and abundance of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae). 1993 white shark symposium volume, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. University of California Press.
Compagno, L.J.V., and S. F. Cook. Preliminary results of research on the behavior of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae). 1993 white shark symposium volume, ed. A. P. Klimley & D. Ainley. University of California Press.

They were in turn derived from a single paper, entitled: A review of research on the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) in southern Africa, with emphasis on results of the White Shark Research Project (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes; Lamnidae).