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Occurrence record: ANFC:H 7166-02

Preserved specimen of Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | Blacktip Reef Shark recorded on 2005-08-17
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Dataset

Data partner CSIRO National Fish Collection
Data resource Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC)
Institution code Supplied institution code "CSIRO"
Collection Supplied collection code "ANFC"
Catalog number H 7166-02
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:CSIRO:Ichthyology:H 7166-02
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by W White  
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Organism quantity 1.0
Supplied as 1
Organism quantity type individual
Date identified 2010-12-15
Identification remarks 1s - Highly reliable identification - identification resulting from the examination of the specimen

Event

Identification remarks 1s - Highly reliable identification - identification resulting from the examination of the specimen
Occurrence date 2005-08-17
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Carcharhinus melanopterus
Supplied scientific name "Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Blacktip Reef Shark
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Carcharhiniformes
Family Carcharhinidae
Genus Carcharhinus
Species Carcharhinus melanopterus
Scientific name ID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105795
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Supplied as: "WA"
Locality Deception Bay
Latitude -15.61667
Supplied as: "-15.61667"
Longitude 124.41667
Supplied as: "124.41667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Footprint well known text POINT (124.41667 -15.61667)

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Kimberley Coast
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Lalang-garram / Camden Sound
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Lalang-garram / Camden Sound
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Kimberley
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF WYNDHAM-EAST KIMBERLEY
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Dambimangari
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native unknown/no data
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1235.5 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 19.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 6.5 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 127.5 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 396.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 86.25 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 935.75 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 14.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 24.125 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.775 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.425 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 17.325 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 24.75 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.25 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.825 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.59 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.6725
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 34.725 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 29.1 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.42249998
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0