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Dermal tissue of whale sharks and Pandarus rhincodonicus were collected near Black Rock Passage and Norwegian Bay in the Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia, between 2016 and 2022. Tissues were collected from host whale sharks using a modified hole-punch spear to remove an approximately three-centimetre-deep skin biopsy spear near the first dorsal fin on each shark. At the same time, a free diver scraped copepods off whale shark hosts using a plastic knife, which were subsequently collected with a hand net. The sex of each whale shark was determined by the observation of claspers, and the individual length was measured using EventMeasure.
Citation: Osorio, B.J.; Skrzypek, G.; Meekan, M. Parasitic Copepods as Biochemical Tracers of Foraging Patterns and Dietary Shifts in Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828). Fishes 2023, 8, 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8050261
Published: May 17, 2023 at 05:18
URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=whale_shark_copepod_samples
Brendon Osorio
University of Western Australia
OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
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| decimalLatitude | 3 |
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| decimalLongitude | 3 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
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| NO_COORD | 3 |
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