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SO - 22 Triaenodon obesus

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ID

Species ID No.	1067
Collection Code	SO
Collection No.	22
Genus	Triaenodon
Species	obesus
Common Name	Whitetip reef shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
ID Notes

Record Data

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

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness	fresh
PCL (cm)	90.5	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	98	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

113

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)	3/23/12
Collected By	J. Caira, K. Jensen
Source of Specimen	Loren Caira
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°13'20.3" S, 157°0'4.0" E
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

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