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BJ - 429 Mobula thurstoni

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ID

Species ID No.	635
Collection Code	BJ
Collection No.	429
Genus	Mobula
Species	thurstoni
Common Name	Smooth-tail mobula
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Myliobatiformes
Family	Mobulidae
ID Notes	worms saved in 2 vials (see notes); 1 pup saved in 10% formalin. Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
04/04/2012	Modified
08/12/2015	Modified	J. Caira
02/10/2016	Modified	K. Jensen
10/08/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)		Disk Length (cm)	118
Fork Length (cm)		Disk Width (cm)	180

Total Length (cm)

194

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	Yes
Accession No.	TCWC# 7565.01

Host DNA

DNA Samples Saved	Yes
DNA Samples Deposition	G. Naylor at Florida State University; J. Caira at University of Connecticut
ND2 Data Generated	Yes
ND2 Sequence Data
GenBank No.
Cophylogeny Specimen	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	9/25/1993
Collected By	Janine N. Caira
Source of Specimen
Collection Method
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Mexico
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	Gulf of California
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Baja California Sur
City	La Paz
Coordinates	24° 7'60"N , 110°17'60"W
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

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