Specimen Details

  • Taxon Name

    Mesoplodon grayi

  • Preferred Common name

    Gray's Beaked Whale

  • Date Identified

    /01/2023

  • Identified By

    Dr Erich M. Fitzgerald - Museums Victoria

  • Number Of Specimens

    1

  • Sex

    Unknown

  • Specimen Nature

    Nature: Tissue, Form: frozen

  • Tissue Details

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

  • Date of preparation

    23/02/2023

  • Tissue sampled from

    Museums Victoria specimen C 41268

  • Collected By

    Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

  • Sampling Method

    salvage

  • Date Visited From

    21/01/2023

  • Date Visited To

    21/01/2023

  • 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

  • Nearest Named Place

    Portland

  • Precise Location

    Portland, Hanlon Parade shoreline, opposite Manca Court

  • Latitude

    -38.3279

  • Longitude

    141.605

  • Geodetic Datum

    WGS84

  • Site Radius

    15

  • Georeference Source

    Google Earth

  • Georeference Protocol

    Estimation

  • Georeference Date

    2023-03-17T00:00:00

  • Georeference By

    Karen K. Roberts