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Elasmobranch Specimen Details

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TW - 2 Alopias superciliosus

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ID

Species ID No.	13
Collection Code	TW
Collection No.	2
Genus	Alopias
Species	superciliosus
Common Name	Bigeye thresher
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Alopiidae
ID Notes	mature

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
06/12/2012	Modified
05/26/2015	Modified	K. Gallagher
06/23/2015	Modified	J. Caira
10/11/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

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

Total Length (cm)

224

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	No
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/11/2005
Collected By	J. Caira; K. Jensen
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Taiwan
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River
River Basin
Island(s)	Taiwan
State/Province
City	Nanfangao Fishing Port
Coordinates	24°34'57"N , 121°52'6"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	No
Sift		No
Worms		No	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes