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BJ - 716 Alopias superciliosus

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ID

Species ID No.	13
Collection Code	BJ
Collection No.	716
Genus	Alopias
Species	superciliosus
Common Name	Bigeye thresher
ID Verified	Yes
ID Verified By	H. Ralicki J. Caira & K. Jensen
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Lamniformes
Family	Alopiidae
ID Notes	cestodes and sieve saved; 2 pups (1 per uterus) 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
05/26/2015	Modified	K. Gallagher
08/12/2015	Modified	J. Caira
10/11/2021	Modified	J. Caira

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Host Specimen Attributes

Sex	female

Maturity		Freshness
PCL (cm)	190	Disk Length (cm)
Fork Length (cm)	227	Disk Width (cm)

Total Length (cm)

350

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	Yes

Host Notes

Locality

Collection Date (mm/dd/yyyy)	6/14/1996
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 Sur
City	Santa Rosalia
Coordinates	27°19'51"N , 112°15'30"W
Decimal Degree Latitude
Decimal Degree Longitude

Associated Parasites

Parasites	10% NBF	95% EtOH	10% NBF Picked
Valve	Yes
Sift		No
Worms	Yes	Yes	n/a
Parasite Specimens ( 1 )
Parasite Notes	multiple valves at UConn-April 2012-ADS