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AU - 30 Negaprion acutidens

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ID

Species ID No.	698
Collection Code	AU
Collection No.	30
Genus	Negaprion
Species	acutidens
Common Name	Sicklefin lemon shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	G. Naylor, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
ID Notes	jaws saved. Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
04/04/2012	Modified
07/25/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/10/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
10/10/2022	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	182	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	200	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

235

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	G. Naylor at Florida State University; J. Caira at University of Connecticut
ND2 Data Generated	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	8/6/1997
Collected By
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	long line
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Australia
Ocean	Indian Ocean
Body of Water/River	Buffalo Creek, Timor Sea
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Northern Territory
City	Darwin
Coordinates	12°20'11"S , 130°54'39"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift	Yes
Worms		Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	valve and sift at UConn-April 2012-ADS; 95% vial did NOT include specimens of Anthobothrium.