Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MCZ-63341

Abstract

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MCZ-63341 - male - 8.53 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University. 28 foot (336 inches), yearling male washed ashore at the granite breakwater, Pigeon Cove Harbor, Rockport, Essex Co., MA. Decomposed carcass not reported to NEA until 16 November. Nearly complete but damaged skeleton, missing right mandible, both radius & ulna, and outer portion of one flipper, and with rostrum broken off and greatly fragmented ,cranium mostly intact, many vertebral discs and inter-vertebral processes broken, and 1 neural arch broken, salvaged on 17 November, and given to the MCZ, Harvard Univ.