Cetacea Specimens details
M35131
NMNS - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Adult male (NSMT-M35131) skull, mandible, and most of post of postcranial skeleton at National Museum of Nature and Science (NMNS). In addition, tissue samples are also preserved at the NMNS. This spec- imen, a fairly well decomposed stranded carcass was found on 4 June 2008 (Fig. 3A–C). Upon receiving notice, SNH took action, and Prof. Mari Kobayashi of Tokyo University of Agriculture and her students examined the carcass on-site. The carcass was then buried at a nearby. The whole skeleton was excavated and recovered on 26 and 27 August 2009 by one of us (SNH), Tokyo University of Agriculture, Institute of Cetacean Research, and NMNS.
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