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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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AU - 118 Carcharhinus melanopterus

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ID

Species ID No.	185
Collection Code	AU
Collection No.	118
Genus	Carcharhinus
Species	melanopterus
Common Name	Blacktip reef shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
ID Notes	jaws saved

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
04/04/2012	Modified
07/25/2015	Modified	J. Caira
10/11/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	68	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	75	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

90

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 University; J. Caira at University of Connecticut
ND2 Data Generated	No
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	8/12/1997
Collected By
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	gill net
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Australia
Ocean	Indian Ocean
Body of Water/River	Fog Bay, Timor Sea
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Northern Territory
City	Dundee Beach
Coordinates	12°45'33"S , 130°21'7"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift
Worms			n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	valve at UConn-April 2012-ADS