Global Cestode Database

Elasmobranch Specimen Details

‹

BO - 4 Brevitrygon heterura

New Search Edit Record ›

ID

Species ID No.	553
Collection Code	BO
Collection No.	4
Genus	Brevitrygon
Species	heterura
Common Name	Dwarf whipray (was Himantura walga)
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
01/26/2009	Created
04/05/2012	Modified
02/11/2016	Modified	K. Mojica
04/14/2017	Modified	K. Jensen
10/08/2021	Modified	J. Caira

More

Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

Maturity	mature	Freshness	very fresh
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	16.8
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	15.6

Total Length (cm)

39.4

Host Specimen Necropsied

Yes

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	- P. Last at CSIRO- G. Naylor at Iowa State- J. Caira at UConn
ND2 Data Generated	No
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/29/2002
Collected By	J. Caira; K. Jensen
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Malaysia
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	South China Sea
River Basin
Island(s)	Borneo
State/Province	Sarawak
City	Santubong
Coordinates	01°43'00.16"N , 110°19'13.55"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift
Worms			n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 3 )
Parasite Notes	valve at UConn-April 2012-ADS