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TWB - 43 Alopias vulpinus

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ID

Species ID No.	14
Collection Code	TWB
Collection No.	43
Genus	Alopias
Species	vulpinus
Common Name	Thintail thresher
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	G. Naylor, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Alopiidae
ID Notes	cut valve into 3 pieces prior to fixation; valve fixed poorly; no images. Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
06/12/2012	Modified

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

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

Total Length (cm)

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)	6/24/2004
Collected By	K. Barber
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	U.S.A.
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water/River	Long Island Sound
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	New York
City	Montauk
Coordinates
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

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