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TW - 101 Alopias pelagicus

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ID

Species ID No.	12
Collection Code	TW
Collection No.	101
Genus	Alopias
Species	pelagicus
Common Name	Pelagic thresher
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Alopiidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
11/10/2013	Created	J. N. Caira
06/06/2014	Modified
05/26/2015	Modified	K. Gallagher
06/23/2015	Modified	J. Caira
11/05/2015	Modified	J. Caira
08/06/2016	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)	82	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	90	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

182

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	11/9/2013
Collected By	S. Chen, J. Caira, K. Jensen
Source of Specimen	local fisherman
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Taiwan
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Taitung
City	Chenggong
Coordinates	23°05'55.1" N, 121°22'49.1" E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	No
Sift	Yes	Yes
Worms	Yes	No	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	"mushroom": 2 vials ICC; 1 vial EM fix