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TW - 23 Alopias pelagicus

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ID

Species ID No.	12
Collection Code	TW
Collection No.	23
Genus	Alopias
Species	pelagicus
Common Name	Pelagic thresher
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	G. Naylor, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Alopiidae
ID Notes	1 bag sift in 10% formalin; 1 bag sift in 95% etoh. Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
06/12/2012	Modified
05/26/2015	Modified	K. Gallagher

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	82	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	90.5	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

153

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

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/14/2005
Collected By	J. Caira; K. Jensen
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Taiwan
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	Taiwan Strait
River Basin
Island(s)	Taiwan
State/Province
City	Doggang
Coordinates	22°27'10"N , 120°26'53"E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

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