The megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, is not a luminous species

• Laurent Duchatelet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Duchatelet, Victoria C. Moris

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Laurent.duchatelet@uclouvain.be

  Affiliation Marine Biology Laboratory, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1320-4067

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• Victoria C. Moris ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Duchatelet, Victoria C. Moris

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Biology Laboratory, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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• Taketeru Tomita,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Motobu-cho, Okinawa, Japan, Zoological Laboratory, Okinawa Churashima Research Center, Motobu-cho, Okinawa, Japan

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• Jacques Mahillon,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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• Keiichi Sato,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Motobu-cho, Okinawa, Japan

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• Catherine Behets,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Pôle de Morphologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium

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• Jérôme Mallefet

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Biology Laboratory, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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