Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Orcinus orca

  • Preferred Common name

    Killer Whale

  • Date Identified

    /10/2013

  • Identified By

    Mandy Watson - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Male

  • Stage Or Age

    Subadult

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: frozen

  • Tissue Details

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

  • Date of preparation

    8/12/2020

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen C 37458

  • Collected By

    Mandy Watson - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP), Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Portland Coastguard, Portland Surf Life Saving Club

  • Sampling Method

    salvage

  • Date Visited From

    23/09/2013

  • Date Visited To

    18/10/2013

  • 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

    Portland

  • Precise Location

    Point Danger Coastal Reserve, Crumpets Beach

  • Latitude

    -38.3911

  • Longitude

    141.649

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Georeference Source

    unknown

  • Georeference Protocol

    unknown

  • Georeference Date

    2013-10-04T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Bob McPherson