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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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CSIRO - 28 Megachasma pelagios

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ID

Species ID No.	624
Collection Code	CSIRO
Collection No.	28
Genus	Megachasma
Species	pelagios
Common Name	Megamouth shark
ID Verified	No
ID Verified By
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Megachasmidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
08/05/2015	Created	J. N. Caira
08/05/2015	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

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Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition
ND2 Data Generated
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

S-1366

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)
Collected By
Source of Specimen	CSIRO
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country
Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province
City
Coordinates
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve
Sift
Worms			n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes