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EC - 17 Alopias pelagicus

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ID

Species ID No.	12
Collection Code	EC
Collection No.	17
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
06/02/2014	Created	B. Barbeau, J. N. Caira
07/23/2014	Modified
06/14/2015	Modified	J. Caira
08/11/2016	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness	not fresh
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	179	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

in very poor shape!

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/24/2014
Collected By	J. Caira, F. Concha, F. Marques
Source of Specimen	local fishermen
Collection Method	long line
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Ecuador
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Santa Elena
City	Santa Rosa de Salinas
Coordinates	2°12'24.4" S, 80°56'58.1" W
Decimal Degree Latitude	-2.19967
Decimal Degree Longitude	-80.9780

Associated Parasites

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