Linnaeus based the original description of the species upon a specimen found dead in the water, a fact noted on the collection label.
In 2014, one specimen was washed ashore along the Santa Monica coastline and in 2013 in just a week two specimens were found dead on the shores of Santa Catalina Island.
An oarfish was last spotted near Catalina in 2013, when an 18-foot specimen was found dead near the island.
The word is misleading but was given to the species because its webbed foot suggested it was accustomed to a water habitat, and the original specimen was found dead in water.
Since May 2015, 14 fin whales, 11 humpback whales, one gray whale and four unidentified specimens have been found dead along shorelines in the Gulf of Alaska, nearly half of them in the Kodiak Archipelago.
Earlier this year, Dr. Kilbourn established for the first time that Ebola is a serious threat to wild gorillas as well as to humans when she found dead specimens in the jungle and found that the disease had killed them, the society said.
We used tissue specimens from Saimaa ringed seals found dead and deposited in a tissue bank maintained by the University of Eastern Finland and Natural Heritage Services of Metsähallitus [ 22].
Most infected birds of species that belonged to the orders Anseriformes, Falconiformes, and Strigiformes were found dead, but a few infections were detected in swab specimens from healthy mallards and feces of wild birds.
The specimen was labeled PS7, because it was the seventh vaquita (scientific name: Phocoena sinus) to be found dead since a survey last summer, which determined that only 30 vaquitas remained at the time.
Five facilities specified that complete necropsies were performed only on animals found dead or euthanized because of illness or injury; for animals euthanized at study completion, targeted tissue specimens were collected to fulfill research objectives (Table).
