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SO - 4 Himantura australis

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ID

Species ID No.	1358
Collection Code	SO
Collection No.	4
Genus	Himantura
Species	australis
Common Name	Australian whipray (H. sp. 4 of Last et al., 2016)
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	G. Naylor, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Dasyatidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
03/25/2012	Created	J. Caira, K. Jensen
11/10/2014	Modified
06/14/2015	Modified	J. Caira
01/26/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
08/05/2016	Modified	J. Caira
06/10/2020	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

Maturity	mature	Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	80.5
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	89.5

Total Length (cm)

208

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	UConn, KU, FSU
ND2 Data Generated	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	3/16/12
Collected By	J. Caira, K. Jensen
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	hand spear
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Solomon Islands
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	Solomon Sea
River Basin
Island(s)	Vonavona
State/Province	Western Province
City	near Rarumana
Coordinates	8°12'56.5 S, 156°59'59.5 E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	No
Sift	Yes	Yes
Worms	Yes	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 17 )
Parasite Notes	valve & sift at KU (K. Herzog, Nov2014); lecanicephalideans in TEM fix; isopods ex claspers (95% EtOH)