Corrigendum: Novel approach to studying marine fauna: using long-life remote underwater video cameras to assess occurrence and behaviour of threatened and data-deficient elasmobranch species in southern Mozambique

A Corrigendum on
Novel approach to studying marine fauna: using long-life remote underwater video cameras to assess occurrence and behaviour of threatened and data-deficient elasmobranch species in southern Mozambique

By Buschmann J, Roques KG, Davies JS, Dissanayake A and Keeping JA (2024). Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1518710. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1518710

In the published article, there was an error in species identification for Aetobatus narinari (corrected to Aetobatus ocellatus) and for Rhynchobatus laevis (corrected to Rhynchobatus djiddensis).

A correction for Aetobatus narinari to Aetobatus ocellatus has been made to the Abstract section, page 1.

This sentence previously stated: “In contrast, spotted eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) and blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) were solely observed cruising over the reef without engaging in cleaning interactions (n = 40 and n = 27 respectively).”

The corrected sentence states: “In contrast, spotted eagle rays (Aetobatus ocellatus) and blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) were solely observed cruising over the reef without engaging in cleaning interactions (n = 40 and n = 27 respectively).”

A correction for Aetobatus narinari to Aetobatus ocellatus has been made to the Introduction section, page 2.

This sentence previously stated: “Among those species are mobulid rays (M. alfredi, M. birostris, Mobula kuhlii), stingrays (Megatrygon microps, Taeniurops meyeni, Pateobatis jenkinsii), eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari, Aetomylaeus vespertilio), guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma), wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae, Rhynchobatus djiddensis), whale sharks (R. typus), requiem sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, Carcharhinus leucas, Carcharhinus limbatus, Carcharhinus obscurus, Triaenodon obesus), leopard sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) (Marshall, 2008; Guillaume and Séret, 2021; Keeping et al., 2021; Pereira, 2021; Venables et al., 2022).”

The corrected sentence states: “Among those species are mobulid rays (M. alfredi, M. birostris, Mobula kuhlii), stingrays (Megatrygon microps, Taeniurops meyeni, Pateobatis jenkinsii), eagle rays (Aetobatus ocellatus, Aetomylaeus vespertilio), guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma), wedgefish (Rhynchobatus australiae, Rhynchobatus djiddensis), whale sharks (R. typus), requiem sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, Carcharhinus leucas, Carcharhinus limbatus, Carcharhinus obscurus, Triaenodon obesus), leopard sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) and hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) (Marshall, 2008; Guillaume and Séret, 2021; Keeping et al., 2021; Pereira, 2021; Venables et al., 2022).”

A correction for Aetobatus narinari to Aetobatus ocellatus has been made to Table 2, page 6.

Table 2

Table 2. Ethogram for sharks, and rays based on Klimley et al. (2023).

This sentence previously stated: “Similar behaviours have been observed for eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) (Berthe et al., 2016) and smalleye stingrays (Buschmann, J., pers. obs.).”

The corrected sentence states: “Similar behaviours have been observed for eagle rays (Aetobatus ocellatus) (Berthe et al., 2016) and smalleye stingrays (Buschmann, J., pers. obs.).”

A correction for Aetobatus narinari to Aetobatus ocellatus has been made to Table 4, row 4 on page 8.

Table 4

Table 4. Overview of sightings per species for both OOCAM and GoPro^TM as well as total number of sightings per species.

This sentence previously stated: “Aetobatus narinari”

The corrected sentence states: “Aetobatus ocellatus”

A correction for Rhynchobatus laevis to Rhynchobatus djiddensis/smoothnose wedgefish to whitespotted wedgefish has been made to Table 4, row 14 on page 8.

This sentence previously stated: “smoothnose wedgefish”

The corrected sentence states: “whitespotted wedgefish”

A correction for Rhynchobatus laevis to Rhynchobatus djiddensis/smoothnose wedgefish to whitespotted wedgefish has been made to Table 4, row 14 on page 8.

This sentence previously stated: “Rhynchobatus laevis”

The corrected sentence states: “Rhynchobatus djiddensis”

A correction for Rhynchobatus laevis to Rhynchobatus djiddensis/smoothnose wedgefish to whitespotted wedgefish has been made to Section 3.1 Data Summary, second paragraph, page 8.

This sentence previously stated: “These were reef manta rays (n = 63), smalleye stingrays (n = 58), oceanic manta rays (n = 40), spotted eagle rays (n = 30), blotched fantail rays (n = 20), fevers of shortfin devil rays (n = 4, total of 15 individuals), bowmouth guitarfish (n = 10), blacktip sharks (n = 19), Jenkins whiprays (n = 5), pink whiprays (n = 1), scalloped hammerhead sharks (n = 1), grey reef sharks (n = 1), whale sharks (n = 1) and smoothnose wedgefish (n = 1).”

The corrected sentence states: “These were reef manta rays (n = 63), smalleye stingrays (n = 58), oceanic manta rays (n = 40), spotted eagle rays (n = 30), blotched fantail rays (n = 20), fevers of shortfin devil rays (n = 4, total of 15 individuals), bowmouth guitarfish (n = 10), blacktip sharks (n = 19), Jenkins whiprays (n = 5), pink whiprays (n = 1), scalloped hammerhead sharks (n = 1), grey reef sharks (n = 1), whale sharks (n = 1) and whitespotted wedgefish (n = 1).”

A correction for Rhynchobatus laevis to Rhynchobatus djiddensis/smoothnose wedgefish to whitespotted wedgefish has been made to Section 4.1 Elasmobranch Sightings, first paragraph, page 9.

This sentence previously stated: “Pink whiprays, grey reef sharks, whale sharks and smoothnose wedgefish were only observed once.”

The corrected sentence states: “Pink whiprays, grey reef sharks, whale sharks and whitespotted wedgefish were only observed once”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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