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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:QVM:9:1049

Preserved specimen of Electroma virens (Lamarck, 1819) | Hammer Oyster
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queen Victoria Museum Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "QVMAG"
Collection Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Invertebrates
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number QVM:9:1049
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations dry
Individual count 2
License CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1943, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1943 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Electroma virens
Identified to rank species
Common name Hammer Oyster
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Ostreida
Family Pteriidae
Genus Electroma
Species Electroma virens
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1819)
Supplied as Quoy & Gaimard, 1835
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Queenscliff
Latitude -38.26666
Supplied as: "-38.26666"
Longitude 144.65
Supplied as: "144.65"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
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
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Port Phillip Heads
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Port Phillip Heads
    Directory of Important Wetlands Swan Bay & Swan Island
    NRM Regions 2010 Corangamite
    NRM Regions 2017 Corangamite
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Corangamite
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 GREATER GEELONG CITY
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) WESTERN VICTORIA
    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 Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 639.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 186.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 115.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 20.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 115.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 195.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 46.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.2 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.5 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.9 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.46 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.07
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.7 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 11.8 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.61
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.95