Specimen C 24956.6 Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781

• Taxon Name

  Megaptera novaeangliae

• Author and date of publication

  Borowski, 1781

• Preferred Common name

  Humpback Whale

• Identified By

  Joan M. Dixon - Museum Victoria

• Number Of Specimens

  1

• Sex

  Female

• Specimen Nature

  Nature: Skull, Form: Dry

• Collected By

  Joan M. Dixon - Museum Victoria, Linda Huxley

• Date Visited From

  15/12/1980

• Date Visited To

  15/12/1980

• Category

  Natural Sciences

• Scientific Group

  Vertebrate Zoology

• Discipline

  Mammalogy

• Collecting Areas

  Mammalogy

• Type of Item

  Specimen

Taxonomy

• Kingdom

  Animalia

• Phylum

  Chordata

• Subphylum

  Vertebrata

• Class

  Mammalia

• Order

  Cetacea

• Suborder

  Mysticeti

• Family

  Balaenopteridae

• Genus

  Megaptera

• Species Name

  novaeangliae