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ArticleJournal of marine science and engineering2026

When Scientific Reassessment Fails Citizen Science. Comment on Soldo, A. When Citizen Science Becomes Speculation: Evaluating the Reliability of Lamnid Shark Identification from Photographic Records in the Mediterranean.

Patrick L Jambura, Julia Türtscher, Joshua K Moyer, Kenshu Shimada, Ilija Ćetković, Branko Dragičević, Pero Ugarković, Mišo Pavičić, Phillip C Sternes, Simone Niedermüller and 12 more

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Article in Journal of marine science and engineering, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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22 authors.

Patrick L JamburaDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4765-5042
Julia TürtscherDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-6129
Joshua K MoyerDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2638-7568
Kenshu ShimadaDepartment of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7836-809X
Ilija ĆetkovićInstitute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3644-6859
Branko DragičevićInstitute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Laboratory of Ichthyology and Coastal Fisheries, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-2364
Pero UgarkovićThe MECO Project, 546 45 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1641-5732
Mišo PavičićInstitute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Laboratory of Ichthyology and Coastal Fisheries, 21000 Split, Croatia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-9876
Phillip C SternesEducation and Conservation Department, SeaWorld, San Diego, CA 92109, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7223-3725
Simone NiedermüllerWorld Wide Fund for Nature Mediterranean Marine Initiative (WWF MMI), 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4014-4138
Jacopo BernardiExperimental Center for Habitats Conservation (CESTHA), 48122 Marina di Ravenna, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2711-9962
Matteo BarbatoDepartment of Biology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5368-2090
Frederik H MollenElasmobranch Research Belgium, Rehaegenstraat 4, 2820 Bonheiden, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9934-1029
Jürgen KriwetDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6439-8455
Douglas J LongDepartment of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6816-8040
Taketeru TomitaOkinawa Churashima Research Center, Okinawa Churashima Foundation, Motobu-cho 905-0206, Okinawa, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9924-6566
Charlie J UnderwoodSchool of Natural Sciences, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK.
Clinton DuffyAuckland War Memorial Museum, The Domain, Parnell, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3352-1609
Craig P O'ConnellMontauk Shark Lab, Montauk, New York, NY 11954, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8547-9150
Alessandro De MaddalenaShark Museum, 26 Forest Hill Road, Simon's Town, Cape Town 7975, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3760-1902
John ChisholmFisheries Science and Emerging Technologies Program, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
Gregory B SkomalMassachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, New Bedford, MA 01950, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4341-453X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soldo [1] raises concerns about the reliability of citizen science-derived photographic records for identifying lamnid sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. Using a recently published juvenile white shark from Croatian waters [2] as a representative case, the author reinterprets the specimen as a porbeagle shark (

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