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BJ - 535 Heterodontus mexicanus

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ID

Species ID No.	508
Collection Code	BJ
Collection No.	535
Genus	Heterodontus
Species	mexicanus
Common Name	Mexican hornshark
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	G. Naylor, J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Heterodontiformes
Family	Heterodontidae
ID Notes	1 vial of nematodes saved in 70% ethanol. Included in Naylor et al. (2011)

Record Data

Date (MM/DD/YYYY)	Action	User Name
01/26/2009	Created
09/09/2010	Modified

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	37	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	42	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

48

Host Specimen Necropsied

Host Specimen Deposition

Saved Entire	No
Accession No.

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

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	5/26/1996
Collected By	Janine N. Caira
Source of Specimen
Collection Method	gill net
Collection Depth (m)
Country	Mexico
Ocean	Pacific Ocean
Body of Water/River	Gulf of California
River Basin
Island(s)
State/Province	Baja California
City	Puertecitos
Coordinates	30°20'58"N , 114°38'22"W
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

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