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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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SE - 59 Carcharhinus obscurus

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ID

Species ID No.	186
Collection Code	SE
Collection No.	59
Genus	Carcharhinus
Species	obscurus
Common Name	Dusky shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
ID Notes	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
10/18/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/10/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
08/06/2016	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	123	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

178

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

H & G sequences differ wrt ambiguities.

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	1/11/2003
Collected By	J. Caira; K. Jensen; C. Fyler; K
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Senegal
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province
City	Ouakam
Coordinates	14°42'54"N , 17°29'28"W
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

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