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IN - 27 Glaucostegus obtusus

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ID

Species ID No.	895
Collection Code	IN
Collection No.	27
Genus	Glaucostegus
Species	obtusus
Common Name	Widenose guitarfish
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Rhinopristiformes
Family	Glaucostegidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
06/19/2013	Created	J. N. Caira & K. Jensen
06/09/2014	Modified
06/14/2015	Modified	J. Caira
11/06/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/17/2020	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

Maturity	mature	Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	24.5

Total Length (cm)

80.3

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	6/7/2013
Collected By
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)	unknown
Country	India
Ocean	Indian Ocean
Body of Water/River	Bay of Bengal
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	West Bengal
City	Digha
Coordinates	21°37'49.4 N, 87°32'38.9 E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	No
Sift	Yes	Yes
Worms	No	No	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes