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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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BO - 108 Urogymnus polylepis

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ID

Species ID No.	1243
Collection Code	BO
Collection No.	108
Genus	Urogymnus
Species	polylepis
Common Name	Giant freshwater whipray (was H. polylepis)
ID Verified	No
ID Verified By
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Dasyatidae
ID Notes	with umbilical scar; entire specimen at UMS

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
11/08/2013	Modified
08/18/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/10/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
02/11/2016	Modified	K. Mojica
07/25/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
06/19/2017	Modified	K. Jensen
02/28/2020	Modified	B. Barbeau

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

Maturity	with umbilical scar	Freshness
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	96
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	90.5

Total Length (cm)

260

Host Specimen Necropsied

Yes

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	Yes
Accession No.	Universiti Malaysia Sabah (M. Manjaji)

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	- P. Last at CSIRO- G. Naylor at Iowa State- J. Caira at UConn (2)
ND2 Data Generated	No
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	4/30/2003
Collected By	J. Caira; K. Jensen
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Malaysia
Ocean
Body of Water/River	Kinabatangan River
River Basin
Island(s)	Borneo
State/Province	Sabah
City	Kampung Abai, Kinabatangan River
Coordinates	05°41'10.81 , 118°23'08.35
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift		Yes
Worms	Yes (NBF & 95%)	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 13 )
Parasite Notes	valve at KU; 1 vial of Rhinebothriidea in 70% EtOH to Tim R.