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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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BJ - 139 Alopias pelagicus

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ID

Species ID No.	12
Collection Code	BJ
Collection No.	139
Genus	Alopias
Species	pelagicus
Common Name	Pelagic thresher
ID Verified	No
ID Verified By
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Alopiidae
ID Notes	worms saved in 10% formalin; No images.

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
04/04/2012	Modified
05/26/2015	Modified	K. Gallagher

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	151	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	171	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

291

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	J. Caira at University of Connecticut
ND2 Data Generated	No
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	8/6/1993
Collected By	Janine N. Caira
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	netted
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Mexico
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	Gulf of California
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Baja California
City	Bahia de Los Angeles
Coordinates	28°59'9"N , 113°32'53"W
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift		No
Worms		Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	2 jars of valves at UConn-April 2012-ADS