One shark was landed at the Naval Base Pasha Liman, Bay of Vlore, Albania, the Adriatic Sea. Photographic records only enabled the specimen to be placed in family Odontaspididae or Carchariidae. Later examination of the preserved head, dry jaw and dentition identified the specimen as Odontaspis ferox. This is a rare record and the northernmost Mediterranean observation of this species, and the first Adriatic record for several decades.

Two shark species, Odontaspis ferox and Centrophorus squamosus, are recorded for the first time at the Galápagos Islands based on one sighting reported by tourist divers and one specimen captured by a local fisherman. The identification of a third shark species, Mustelus albipinnis, previously unidentified and recorded as Mustelus sp., is achieved based on several sightings at the same location.

A video clip from the Galápagos Archipelago confirms the first recording of the smalltooth sandtiger shark, Odontaspis ferox, in these islands. Further sightings of this species in the eastern Pacific will likely follow, considering that other, relatively nearby islands lay within reach of the Equatorial Counter Current and North Equatorial Current, which connect some already reported sightings.

An unidentified shark carcass (minus head, fins and entrails) was landed in Fortaleza, Brazil following its commercial fishery capture off Ceará State in north-eastern Brazil. The absence of key morphological characters precluded traditional identification, necessitating the employment of DNA bar coding techniques. The obtained 639 nts COI sequence fragment perfectly matched six of seven Odontaspis ferox sequences available on the Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) system database, and was 99.2% similar to the seventh.