Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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BO - 497 Urogymnus polylepis
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ID

Species ID No. 1243
Collection Code BO
Collection No. 497
Genus Urogymnus
Species polylepis
Common Name Giant freshwater whipray (was H. polylepis)
ID Verified Yes
ID Verified By H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class Elasmobranchii
Order Myliobatiformes
Family Dasyatidae
ID Notes oral papillae formula: 1 2 1; collected by Etin, Aznih & Maznih Etin’s father; acanthocephalans from valve; saved in 95% EtOH (2) and 10% formalin (5); papilla formula 1 2 1 3 blood smears taken gnathis found on dorsal surface, saved in 95% ethanol (some kept in water to rear, but they perished) copepods (gnathids?) from external surface (including dorsal) kept acanthocephalans found in... Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY) Action User Name
01/26/2009 Created
04/05/2012Modified
08/18/2015ModifiedJ. Caira
02/10/2016ModifiedK. Jensen
08/06/2016ModifiedJ. Caira
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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex male
Maturity immature Freshness
PCL (cm) Disk Length (cm) 49
Fork Length (cm) Disk Width (cm) 45.8
Total Length (cm) 145.4
Host Specimen Necropsied
Host Specimen Deposition
Saved Entire No
Accession No.
Host DNA
DNA Samples Saved Yes
DNA Samples Deposition - G. Naylor at Florida State - J. Caira at UConn - P. Last at CSIRO
ND2 Data Generated Yes
ND2 Sequence Data  
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen Yes
Host Notes

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Associated Parasites

Parasites 10% NBF 95% EtOH 10% NBF Picked
Valve Yes
Sift
Worms Yes n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 2 )
Parasite Notes valve at UConn-April 2012-ADS