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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.25038

Preserved specimen of Merhippolyte chacei Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987 recorded on 1976-11-10
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number P.25038
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1057408,urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.25038"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Kensley, Dr Brian F. - Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of Natural History.  
Collector FRV "Kapala"
Specimen type cited
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment trawl
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [trawl]
Date identified 1983

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1057670
Occurrence date 1976-11-10
Supplied date "1976-11-10/1976-11-10"
Sampling protocol trawl  
End day of year 315
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 315

Taxonomy

Scientific name Merhippolyte chacei
Supplied scientific name "Merhippolyte chacei Kensley et al., 1987"
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Hippolytidae
Genus Merhippolyte
Species Merhippolyte chacei
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Accepted name Merhippolyte chacei Kensley et al., 1987
Scientific name authorship Kensley, Tranter & Griffin, 1987
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Kensley et al., 1987

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -35.708332
Supplied as: "-35.708332"
Longitude 150.65
Supplied as: "150.65"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality east of Batemans Bay
Location remarks [K76-19-04] Australia, New South Wales, east of Batemans Bay (35° 44' S, 150° 38' E) 10/11/1976 - 10/11/1976, trawl
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 35° 42' 30" S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 150° 39' 00" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Southeast Transition
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Transition
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 New South Wales
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 515.0 frequency
    Species Richness 149.0 frequency