Sharks (elasmobranchs) are an ancient, diverse group of fishes, representing a basal stage in the evolution of vertebrate hearing. Yet, our understanding of physiological and particularly behavioural measures of hearing abilities in sharks is limited.

Auditory sensitivity measurements have been published for only 12 of the more than 1,150 extant species of elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays). As a result, there is the need to further understand sound perception in more species from different ecological

Behavioural studies have shown that sharks are capable of directional orientation to sound. However, only one previous experiment addresses the physiological mechanisms of directional hearing in sharks. Here, we used a directional shaker table in combination