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TW - 207 Alopias pelagicus

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ID

Species ID No.	12
Collection Code	TW
Collection No.	207
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
01/13/2017	Created	J. N. Caira
01/23/2017	Modified	J. Caira
03/06/2017	Modified	J. Caira
06/21/2017	Modified	K. Jensen
04/21/2019	Modified	J. Caira
10/11/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)	99	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

Host Specimen Necropsied

Yes

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

valve split

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	1/10/2017
Collected By
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	long line
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Taiwan
Ocean	Pacific
Body of Water/River	Taiwan Strait
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Pingtung
City	Donggang
Coordinates	22¼21'58.4" N, 120¼26'39.1" E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift
Worms	Yes	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	Paraorygmatobothrium (etc.) in small jar 10%