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Accession number

NHMUK-1887.12.7.189

Holding institution

Natural History Museum, London

Date collected

23 August 1873

Area or Water body

S.W. of Sierra Leone, West Africa
Eastern Central Atlantic Ocean

Form

Fluid

FAO

34

Field measurements and observations

Bottom Temperature (°F): 36.6
Depth (Fathoms): 2500
Sediment sample: Globigerina ooze
Specific Gravity at water bottom: 1.02801
Specific Gravity at water surface: 1.02339
Surface Temperature (°F): 78
Temperature at x fathoms: 78.4;77.8;76;68.8;63.8;60.5;55;49;45;42.4;40.7;39.7;39.2;38.9;38.6;38.2;37.9;37.6;37.3;37;36.7

Taxonomic groups

Chauliodus sloani
Chauliodus
Stomiidae
Stomiiformes
Actinopterygii
Chordata
Animalia

Station

104

Gear

Trawl

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