Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Physeter macrocephalus

  • Preferred Common name

    Sperm Whale

  • Identified By

    Rory O'Brien - Museum Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Female

  • Stage Or Age

    Juvenile

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: frozen

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Skin, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen C 31720

  • Collected By

    Rory O'Brien - Museum Victoria, Peter Swinkels - Museums Victoria

  • Sampling Method

    salvage

  • Date Visited From

    12/04/2003

  • Date Visited To

    12/04/2003

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Vertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    DNA Laboratory

  • Collecting Areas

    Tissue and DNA

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Country

    Australia

  • State

    Victoria

  • Town

    Yambuk

  • Precise Location

    Codrington Beach, 500 m W of wind farm

  • Latitude

    -38.279

  • Longitude

    141.929

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Site Radius

    3

  • Georeference Source

    Google Earth

  • Georeference Protocol

    Estimation

  • Georeference Date

    2021-12-15T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Karen K. Roberts