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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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BO - 237 Brevitrygon heterura

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ID

Species ID No.	553
Collection Code	BO
Collection No.	237
Genus	Brevitrygon
Species	heterura
Common Name	Dwarf whipray (was Himantura walga)
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Dasyatidae
ID Notes	Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
04/05/2012	Modified
08/18/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/10/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
08/06/2016	Modified	J. Caira
01/14/2018	Modified	K. Jensen

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	17
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	17

Total Length (cm)

34.5

Host Specimen Necropsied

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	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/18/2003
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	Mukah
Coordinates	02°53'52.16"N , 112°05'44.12"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift		Yes
Worms	Yes (95%)	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	undersized valve in vial at UConn-April 2012-ADS; 95% sift now in 2 dram vial-at UConn-Jan 2018-KJ