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SO - 8 Pastinachus ater

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ID

Species ID No.	1235
Collection Code	SO
Collection No.	8
Genus	Pastinachus
Species	ater
Common Name	Broad cowtail ray (was P. atrus)
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki 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
08/04/2015	Modified	K. Jensen
10/08/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity	mature	Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	84
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	123

Total Length (cm)

191.5

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
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

1 pup

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	3/19/12
Collected By	J. Caira, K. Jensen
Source of Specimen	Gravis
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°13'23.8" S, 157°0'2.4" 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 ( 6 )
Parasite Notes	monogeneans ex ventral surface (95%EtOH); monogeneans ex ventral surface (10%NBF); copepods ex ventral surface (95%EtOH); valve and sift at KU (K. Herzog, Nov2014)