Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Herklotsichthys

  • Preferred Common name

    a herring

  • Date Identified

    07/10/2025

  • Identified By

    Dianne J. Bray - Museums Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Unknown

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: frozen, Fixative treatment: ethanol 95%, Medium: ethanol 95%

  • Tissue Details

    Type: muscle, Preservative: ethanol 96%, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Date of preparation

    8/11/2009

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen A 30701.1

  • Expedition Name

    2009 Coral Sea Lanternfish and tuna aggregation

  • Collection Event Code

    LTA 2

  • Sampling Method

    cast net

  • Date Visited From

    8/11/2009 4:00 PM

  • Date Visited To

    8/11/2009 4:15 PM

  • Depth To (m)

    1

  • Depth From (m)

    0

  • 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

    Queensland

  • Precise Location

    Fitzroy Island, off jetty

  • Latitude

    -16.9312

  • Longitude

    145.988

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    GPS

  • Georeference Protocol

    gps original

  • Georeference Date

    2009-11-08T00:00:00