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Occurrence record: Ichthyology:A26282-1

Preserved specimen of Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810 | a seahorse recorded on 1996-01-07
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number A26282-1
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ichthyology:PreservedSpecimen:A26282-1
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations tissue, whole specimen|Wet|ethanol 95%
Identified by Dianne J. Bray - Museums Victoria  
Collector Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute (MAFRI)  
Supplied as "Dr Greg Jenkins - Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute (MAFRI)"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 2
Life stage Juvenile
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [seine]
Date identified /04/2005

Event

Occurrence date 1996-01-07
Supplied date "1996-01-07T00:00:00\1996-01-07T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol seine  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Craniata | Gnathostomata | Actinopterygii | Syngnathiformes | Syngnathoidei | Syngnathidae
Scientific name Hippocampus
Identified to rank genus
Common name a seahorse
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Syngnathiformes
Family Syngnathidae
Genus Hippocampus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Rafinesque, 1810
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Port Phillip Bay, Portarlington, Grassy Point
Latitude -38.1203
Supplied as: "-38.1203"
Longitude 144.693
Supplied as: "144.693"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Port Phillip Bay, Portarlington, Grassy Point
Minimum depth in metres 0
Maximum depth in metres 1
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Google Earth
Georeference protocol Estimation
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Other Shrublands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Melaleuca shrublands and open shrublands
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Melaleuca forests and woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 18357.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1383.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 576.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 155.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 111.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 115.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 171.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 45.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.7 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.15
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 24.6 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.5 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.55
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.87