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CH - 11 Hypanus americanus

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ID

Species ID No.	276
Collection Code	CH
Collection No.	11
Genus	Hypanus
Species	americanus
Common Name	Southern stingray (was Dasyatis americana)
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Dasyatidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
08/03/2012	Created
11/10/2014	Modified
07/25/2015	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	mature	Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	58.5
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	64

Total Length (cm)

152

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)	6/29/2012
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	long line
Collection Depth (m)
Country	U.S.A.
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water/River	Charleston Harbor
River Basin
Island(s)	Morris Island
State/Province	South Carolina
City	Charleston
Coordinates	32°43'44.96 N, 79°53'25.83 W
Decimal Degree Latitude	32.729156
Decimal Degree Longitude	-79.890508

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	No
Sift	Yes	Yes
Worms	Yes	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	valve at KU (K. Herzog, Nov2014), ethanol worms (sift and vial) poorly fixed; 1 vial mixed worms in 2.5% Gluteraldehyde/PBS for N. Biserova (Acanthobothrium, Polypocephalus, trypanorhynch, and rhinebothriidean)