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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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SL - 78 Hemipristis elongata

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ID

Species ID No.	491
Collection Code	SL
Collection No.	78
Genus	Hemipristis
Species	elongata
Common Name	Snaggletooth shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Hemigaleidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
03/17/2018	Created	J. N. Caira
03/28/2018	Modified	K. Jensen
05/14/2018	Modified	K. Jensen
02/07/2020	Modified	K. Herzog
02/17/2020	Modified	J. Caira
02/28/2020	Modified	B. Barbeau
10/11/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

Maturity	immature	Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)	65	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	72	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

88.5

Host Specimen Necropsied

Yes

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	Yes
Accession No.	BRT-I 0018

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	3/14/2018
Collected By	J. Caira, K. Jensen, Blue Resour
Source of Specimen	local fisherman
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Sri Lanka
Ocean	Indian Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)	Sri Lanka
State/Province	Eastern Province
City	Muttur landing site, Muttur
Coordinates	08°27'48.96 N, 81°15'56.88 E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	No
Sift	Yes	Yes
Worms	No	No	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	valve 10% & 10% & 05% sift Uconn