Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Caperea marginata

  • Preferred Common name

    Pygmy Right Whale

  • Date Identified

    13/11/2019

  • Identified By

    Tony Mitchell - Department of Sustainability and Environment

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Female

  • Stage Or Age

    neonate

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: frozen

  • Tissue Details

    Type: Blubber, Preservative: ethanol 70%, Storage temperature: -196°C

  • Date of preparation

    08/12/2020

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen C 40064

  • Collected By

    Joey Williamson, Tony Mitchell - Department of Sustainability and Environment

  • Sampling Method

    salvage

  • Date Visited From

    13/11/2019

  • Date Visited To

    13/11/2019

  • Category

    Natural Sciences

  • Scientific Group

    Vertebrate Zoology

  • Discipline

    DNA Laboratory

  • Collecting Areas

    Mammalogy

  • Type of Item

    Specimen

Taxonomy

Geospatial Information

  • Country

    Australia

  • State

    Victoria

  • Town

    Cape Conran

  • Precise Location

    Joiners Channel, West Cape

  • Latitude

    -37.8123

  • Longitude

    148.73

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    data provided with specimen(s)

  • Georeference Protocol

    UTM conversion

  • Georeference Date

    2019-11-15T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Ricky-Lee Erickson - Museums Victoria