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Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

Catalog Data

Ocean/Sea/Gulf:
South Atlantic Ocean, Rio de la Plata  Search this
Preparation:
Skeleton
Skull
Sex:
Unknown
Place:
Parana River, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, South Atlantic Ocean
Notes:
Redman, N. (2017). Whales' bones of the Americas, South Atlantic and Antarctica - Canada, United States of America (except Hawaii), Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, The Bahamas, Bequia, Bonaire, Cuba, Curayao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Martinique, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia. Teddington, England, Redman Publishing. page 78-79.
Record Last Modified:
14 Feb 2018
Specimen Count:
1
Taxonomy:
Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae
Published Name:
Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
Megaptera? burmeisteri Gray, 1866
Other Numbers:
Whale Field Number 1 : No Number
USNM Number:
STR14302
See more items in:
Vertebrate Zoology
Mammals
Data Source:
NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/37ede15e0-0633-4f03-ab3f-46fbba3998b3
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmnhvz_10055652