Ocean/Sea/Gulf:

North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea  Search this

Length - Total:

30 m

Preparation:

Partial Skeleton

Sex:

Unknown

Place:

Colon, Cristobal-Colon, Panama, North America, North Atlantic Ocean

Collection Date:

Jan 1922

Notes:

Animal entered and swam up canal to Gatun locks where it was killed. tl 98 ft. ;

Mitchell Hedges 1924:20-21 [Mitchell Hedges, F. A. (1924). Battles with giant fish. Boston, Small, Maynard and Company.] He says it was towed out to sea, restranded, towed again, bombed by US Army planes, pieces of it came ashore at Santa Isabel near Nombre de Dios, 60 miles down the coast. Mitchell Hedges presented some vertebrae to BM(NH).

Record Last Modified:

8 Dec 2017

Specimen Count:

1

Taxonomy:

Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae

Published Name:

Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Other Numbers:

Whale Field Number 1 : No Number

USNM Number:

STR4462

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Vertebrate Zoology

Mammals

Data Source:

NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Mammals Division

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3fb980e5b-f8b8-46ed-9cdb-ad59b80e0677

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhvz_7520244