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ID

Species ID No.	524
Collection Code	NT
Collection No.	26
Genus	Maculabatis
Species	astra
Common Name	(Himantura toshi of Last et al., 2016)
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Dasyatidae
ID Notes	cestodes saved in EM fix. pups; 1 vial liver sent to G. Naylor (01/14/00); Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
06/12/2012	Modified
08/31/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/10/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
08/06/2016	Modified	J. Caira
01/15/2018	Modified	F. Reyda

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	64
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	74

Total Length (cm)

144

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	J. Caira at the University of Connecticut; G. Naylor at Florida State University
ND2 Data Generated	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	11/11/1999
Collected By	J. N. Caira; K. Jensen
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	trawling
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Australia
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	Arafura Sea
River Basin
Island(s)	east of Wessel Islands
State/Province	Northern Territory
City
Coordinates	11°17'44"S , 136°59'48"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift
Worms		Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 3 )
Parasite Notes	valve at UConn-April 2012-ADS; 1 vial trypanorhynchs in 10% formalin sent to I. Beveridge; 1 vial trypanorhynchs in 95% EtOH sent to I. Beveridge; Reyda has a vial of Stillabothrium specimens (Feb, 2018)