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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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KU - 8622 Galeus melastomus

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ID

Species ID No.	435
Collection Code	KU
Collection No.	8622
Genus	Galeus
Species	melastomus
Common Name	Blackmouth catshark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Pentanchidae
ID Notes	field number: RC 06-01

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
08/19/2015	Created	K. Jensen
08/19/2015	Modified	K. Jensen
02/17/2020	Modified	J. Caira
10/11/2021	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

Saved Entire	Yes
Accession No.	BioCon 2200

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	KU Ichthyology Frozen Tissue Collection
ND2 Data Generated
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

voucher number: BioCon2200; muscle tissues

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	11/30/2005
Collected By	Rui Coelho
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Portugal
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Algarve
City	off Tonel beach, Sagres
Coordinates	37.00025556 , -8.94497222
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