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BE - 1 Ginglymostoma cirratum

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ID

Species ID No.	444
Collection Code	BE
Collection No.	1
Genus	Ginglymostoma
Species	cirratum
Common Name	Nurse shark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Orectolobiformes
Family	Ginglymostomatidae
ID Notes

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
05/20/2012	Created	J. N. Caira & V. Bueno
06/06/2014	Modified
06/14/2015	Modified	J. Caira
08/11/2016	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	male

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

Total Length (cm)

158

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

Host DNA

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

Host Notes

host tissue in Belize 100% etoh; chambers 5-9 100% etoh; remainder 10% nbf

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/11/2012
Collected By	UConn
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	set line
Collection Depth (m)	1
Country	Belize
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean
Body of Water/River	Gulf of Honduras
River Basin
Island(s)	Head Caye
State/Province	Toledo
City	Punta Gorda
Coordinates	16°12'43.9" N, 88°35'39.3" W
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes	Yes
Sift	No	No
Worms	No	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 0 )
Parasite Notes	valve (half 10%, half 100% UConn); 1 vial mixed worms & Pedi 100% UConn; Lockenloia sanguinis 100% UConn