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CH - 6 Carcharhinus limbatus

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ID

Species ID No.	181
Collection Code	CH
Collection No.	6
Genus	Carcharhinus
Species	limbatus
Common Name	Blacktip shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
ID Notes	Given to Gavin but no sequence returned.

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
08/03/2012	Created
11/10/2014	Modified
07/25/2015	Modified	J. Caira
08/03/2015	Modified	K. Jensen
10/18/2015	Modified	J. Caira
08/06/2016	Modified	J. Caira
01/20/2020	Modified	P. Lopez Dineen

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity	immature	Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)	49.5	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	66	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

55

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	UConn, KU
ND2 Data Generated	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	6/27/2012
Collected By	K. Jensen, N. Odell, J. Cielocha
Source of Specimen	Bryan Frazier & Ashley Shaw (DNR South Carolina) in collaboration with Isaure deBuron (College of Ch
Collection Method	gill net
Collection Depth (m)
Country	U.S.A.
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water/River	Bulls Bay
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	South Carolina
City	Awendaw
Coordinates	33°02'07.78 N, 79°32'47.24 W
Decimal Degree Latitude	33.035494
Decimal Degree Longitude	-79.546456

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	No
Sift	Yes	No
Worms	Yes	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 2 )
Parasite Notes	valve & sift at KU (K. Herzog, Nov2014), ethanol worms poorly fixed; 1 Phoreiobothrium, 3 Paraorygmatobothrium in TEM