Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Mitsukurina owstoni

  • Author and date of publication

    Jordan, 1898

  • Preferred Common name

    Goblin Shark

  • Date Identified

    09/03/2012

  • Identified By

    Dianne J. Bray - Museums Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: Frozen, Fixative treatment: ethanol 100%, absolute, Medium: ethanol 100%, absolute

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Muscle, Preservative: ethanol, absolute, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen A 26564.1

  • Collected By

    Trevor Hunt - Skipper, FV Lady Miriam

  • Sampling Method

    trawl, otter

  • Date Visited From

    20/10/2011

  • Date Visited To

    20/10/2011

  • Depth From (m)

    530

  • 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

    Bass Strait, E of Esso's 'Flounder platform' on a hard muddy bottom next to a canyon

  • Latitude

    -38.3853

  • Longitude

    148.719

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    GPS

  • Georeference Protocol

    gps original