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Relationship between centrum diameter and mass for female (xl and male (o) white sharks, C. 

 carchanas. Squares indicate shark BT433 at tagging and recapture. 



iX^ test, P<0.001, n=22). With method SC-A, and 

 again only with vertebrae where all three counts had 

 the same last band, the observed ratio of translu- 



cent to opaque last bands differed significantly from 

 the expected ratio (x^ test, P<0.001, n=75), again ir- 

 respective of whether opaque band deposition was 



