Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Balaenoptera musculus

  • Preferred Common name

    Blue Whale

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Male

  • Specimen Nature

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

  • Tissue Details

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

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen C 28663.3

  • Date Visited From

    6/05/1992

  • Date Visited To

    6/05/1992

  • 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

  • Precise Location

    Beach at Cathedral Rock, 5 km NE of Lorne

  • Latitude

    -38.5

  • Longitude

    144.01

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    Google Earth

  • Georeference Protocol

    Estimation

  • Georeference Date

    2013-02-25T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Karen K. Roberts