Occurrence record: Mammalogy:C42251
Preserved specimen
of
Tachyglossus aculeatus
(Shaw, 1792)
| Short-beaked Echidna
recorded on 2025-09-11
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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy" |
| Catalog number | C42251 |
| Occurrence ID | urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Mammalogy:PreservedSpecimen:C42251 |
| Record type |
Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen" |
| Preparations | Whole|frozen |
| Collector | Ms Katie Howard - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) | Louise Durkin - Arthur Rylah Institute |
| Individual count | 1 |
| 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 | [salvage] |
Event
| Occurrence date |
2025-09-11
Supplied date "2025-09-11T00:00:00\2025-09-11T00:00:00" |
| Sampling protocol | salvage |
| End day of year | 254 |
| Date precision | DAY |
| Start day of year | 254 |
Taxonomy
| Higher classification | Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Mammalia | Monotremata | Tachyglossidae |
| Scientific name |
Tachyglossus aculeatus
Supplied scientific name "Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792)" |
| Identified to rank | species |
| Common name | Short-beaked Echidna |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Order | Monotremata |
| Family | Tachyglossidae |
| Genus | Tachyglossus |
| Species | Tachyglossus aculeatus |
| Name match metric | exactMatch |
| Scientific name authorship | (Shaw, 1792) |
| Name parse type | SCIENTIFIC |
| Nomenclatural code | ICZN |
Geospatial
| Country | Australia |
| State or Territory | Victoria |
| Locality | Barmah-Millewa Forest |
| Latitude |
-35.85 Supplied as: "-35.85" |
| Longitude |
145.001 Supplied as: "145.001" |
| Datum |
EPSG:4326 Supplied datum: "WGS84" |
| Verbatim locality | Barmah-Millewa Forest |
| Coordinate precision | Unknown |
| Georeference sources | Collector |
| Georeference protocol | gps |
| Terrestrial | true |
| Georeferenced date | 2025-09-11T00:00 Supplied as 2025-09-11T00:00:00 |
| Biome | TERRESTRIAL |
| Marine | false |
| Country Code | AU |
Data quality tests
| Test name | Result |
| Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid | Warning |
| Recorded date invalid | Warning |
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