Killarney Beach, near the cuttings, Victoria, Australia, Australia, Indian Ocean
Collection Date:
Aug 2016
Notes:
Brady 2016; Allen e-mail 26 VIII 2016
Brady, A. (2016). "Dead whale washes up on Killarney Beach." The Standard(Webpage Thursday, September 8).
From: Fitzgerald, Erich [mailto:efitzgerald@museum.vic.gov.au] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 3:46 PM To: Mead, James <MEADJ@si.edu> Subject: Re: Caperea Hi Jim, Yes, we collected that Caperea as a whole specimen the same day it washed up--it went directly into our freezer. Extremely fresh specimen. We will be MRI and CT scanning the whole body, followed by dissection. Total length is 2 m. Last Monday (1 week after the Caperea washed up), we collected a whole dwarf minke that washed up at Wonthaggi (SE of Melbourne). That animal is 3.8 m long. It was also extremely fresh, code 2. The head and flippers of that specimen have been frozen for scanning and dissection. Best regards, Erich Sent from my iPhone On 9 Sep 2016, at 11:34 pm, Mead, James <MEADJ@si.edu<mailto:MEADJ@si.edu>> wrote: Erich, I presume you got this one. Could I trouble you for the total lengh? Any corrections to the news story?
Record Last Modified:
8 Dec 2017
Specimen Count:
1
Taxonomy:
Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Mysticeti, Neobalaenidae
