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BJ - 207 Carcharhinus falciformis

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ID

Species ID No.	174
Collection Code	BJ
Collection No.	207
Genus	Carcharhinus
Species	falciformis
Common Name	Silky shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
ID Notes	worms fixed in 10% formalin; No images. Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
04/04/2012	Modified
03/06/2017	Modified	J. Caira
10/11/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	134	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	152	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

185

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	8/9/1993
Collected By	Janine N. Caira
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
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	Yes
Worms	Yes		n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 1 )
Parasite Notes	valve and sift at UConn-April 2012-ADS