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Morphology and phylogenetic significance of the pelvic articular region in elasmobranchs (Chondrichthyes). Cladistics, in press
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Weigmann, S. & Vaz, D.F.B. & Akhilesh, K.V. & Leeney, R.H. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2023)
Revision of the Western Indian Ocean Angel Sharks, Genus Squatina (Squatiniformes, Squatinidae), with Description of a New Species and Redescription of the African Angel Shark Squatina africana Regan, 1908. Biology, 12(7), Article 975
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Vaz, D.F.B. & Avery, T.M. & Gabler-Smith, M.K. & Lauder, G.V. (2023)
The Denticle Multiverse: Morphological Diversity of Placoid Scales across Ontogeny in the Portuguese Dogfish, Centroscymnus coelolepis, and Its Systematic Implications. Diversity, 15(11), Article 1105
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Vaz, D.F.B. (2021)
Scymnodon plunketi (Waite, 1910), a junior synonym of Scymnodon macracanthus (Regan, 1906) (Somniosidae: Elasmobranchii). Journal of Fish Biology, 99, 2, 472–494
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da Silva, J.P.C.B. & Vaz, D.F.B. & de Carvalho, M.R. (2018)
Phylogenetic inferences on the systematics of squaliform sharks based on elasmobranch scapular morphology (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 182(3), 614-630
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Vaz, D.F.B. & de Carvalho, M.R. (2018)
New Species of Squatina (Squatiniformes: Squatinidae) from Brazil, with Comments on the Taxonomy of Angel Sharks from the Central and Northwestern Atlantic. Copeia, 106(1), 144–160
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Weigmann, S. & Vaz, D.F.B. & White, W.T. & de Carvalho, M.R. & Thiel, R. (2016)
Distribution and comments on the morphology of Centroscymnus owstonii Garman, 1906 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae), with focus on its occurrence in the Indian Ocean. Marine Biodiversity, 46(3), 641–653
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White, W.T. & Vaz, D.F.B. & Ho, H.-C. & Ebert, D.A. & de Carvalho, M.R. & Corrigan, S. & Rochel, E. & de Carvalho, M. & Tanaka, Sho & Naylor, G.J.P. (2015)
Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62(2), 213–229
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da Silva, J.P.C.B. & Vaz, D.F.B. & de Carvalho, M.R. (2015)
Systematic Implications of the Anterior Pectoral Basals in Squaliform Sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii). Copeia, 103(4), 874–885
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Phylogenetic relationships among major groups of living elasmobranchs: a morphological perspective Abstract. 9th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference(IPFC), Abstracts: 25

Vaz, D.F.B. & de Carvalho, M.R. (2013)
Morphological and taxonomic revision of species of Squatina from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae). Zootaxa, 3695(1), 1–81
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