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Occurrence record: AVIF:A3487

Preserved specimen of Sula leucogaster plotus (J.R. Forster, 1844) | Indo-pacific Brown Booby
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Bird Collection
Supplied collection code "AVIF"
Catalog number A3487
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:AVIF:3487
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Eggs
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
Life stage Egg
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Data generalizations Record is in Western Australia. Generalised to 10 km by WA DEC.
State conservation Migratory

Event

Verbatim event date 1903-09-05
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sula leucogaster plotus
Identified to rank subspecies
Common name Indo-pacific Brown Booby
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Pelecaniformes
Supplied as "Suliformes"
Family Sulidae
Genus Sula
Species Sula leucogaster
Name match metric exactMatch
Infraspecific epithet plotus
Subspecies Sula leucogaster plotus
Scientific name authorship (J.R. Forster, 1844)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Latitude -16.8
Supplied as: "-16.8"
Longitude 122.1
Supplied as: "122.1"
Datum EPSG:4326
Island group Lacepede Islands
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Coordinates generalised Due to sensitivity concerns, the coordinates of this record have been generalised: "Record is in Western Australia. Generalised to 10 km by WA DEC.".
Municipality Lacepede Islands
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Kimberley Coast
    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 Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Canning
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF BROOME