VIAL NUMBER: 1 FIELD NUMBER: 20070930 SPECIES: Rocinela signata SPECIMENS: 2 preserved, but others biting IDENTIFIERS: Ernest H. Williams and Lucy Bunkley-Williams COLLECTION LOCALITY: Speyside, Tobago COLLECTORS: Ernest H. Williams and Lucy Bunkley-Williams COLLECTON DATE: 30 August 2007 COLLECTION METHOD: by hand COLLECTION DEPTH: NR COLLECTION HABITAT: NR HOST SPECIES: Human, Homo sapiens HOST IDENTIFICATION: Ernest H. Williams and Lucy Bunkley-Williams HOST COLLECTED BY: NA STANDARD LENGTH, TOTAL LENGTH (cm): NR NUMBER OF FISH/NUMBER INFECTED (if not 1/1): NA LOCATION ON HOST: body PRESERVATION: on a standard microscope slide. Mounting media unknown. COMMENTS: [1] Mass attacks on divers have been reported in Colombia. We have frequently seen attacks by individual, adult R. signata. [2] Sent to us by a scuba diver. Must look up his name in our records. PHOTOGRAPHS: NA
