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Occurrence record: Fish:S.17870-002

Preserved specimen of Ambassis vachellii Richardson, 1846 | Vachell's Glassfish recorded on 2014-09-14
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Fish"
Catalog number S.17870-002
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Fish:S.17870_002
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by R.S. Williams  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2015

Event

Occurrence date 2014-09-14
Supplied as year:2014  month:9  day:14 
End day of year 257
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 257

Taxonomy

Scientific name Ambassis vachellii
Identified to rank species
Common name Vachell's Glassfish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Ambassidae
Genus Ambassis
Species Ambassis vachellii
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Richardson, 1846
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Supplied as: "QLD"
Locality Yeates Creek, Bowen
Latitude -20.162
Supplied as: "-20.162"
Longitude 148.326
Supplied as: "148.326"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) Central Mackay Coast
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) Debella
    NRM Regions 2010 Mackay Whitsunday
    NRM Regions 2017 Mackay Whitsunday
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Mackay Whitsunday
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Mackay Whitsunday
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Central Mackay Coast
    IBRA 7 Regions Central Mackay Coast
    IBRA 7 Subregions Debella
    Hydrology
    Australian Drainage Divisions 2021 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 PROSERPINE RIVER
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Areas 2021 Bowen (Qld)
    Indigenous Locations 2021 Bowen (Qld)
    Indigenous Regions 2021 Townsville - Mackay
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021 Dawson
    Electorates March 2025 Dawson
    Local Government Areas 2011 Whitsunday (R)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Bowen
    Local Government Areas 2023 Whitsunday
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 WHITSUNDAY REGIONAL
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 31
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 1047
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) COLLINSVILLE
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) BOWEN BASIN - NORTH
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) MACKAY - ISAAC - WHITSUNDAY
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) DAWSON
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) BOWEN (QLD)
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) BOWEN (QLD)
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) TOWNSVILLE - MACKAY
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BURDEKIN
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    State Electoral Divisions 2022 Burdekin
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Social
    Australia 2021 Australia
    Destination Zones 2021 Collinsville
    Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021 Rest of Qld
    Postal Areas 2021 4805
    Remoteness Areas 2021 Outer Regional Australia
    States and Territories 2021 Queensland
    Statistical Areas Level 2 Collinsville
    Statistical Areas Level 3 Bowen Basin - North
    Statistical Areas Level 4 Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday
    Tourism Regions 2021 Whitsundays
    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 Melaleuca Forests and Woodlands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Melaleuca open forests and woodlands
    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

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1362.0 frequency
    Species Richness 505.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 944.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 61.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 51.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 90.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 535.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 59.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 552.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 19.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 24.0 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 13.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 19.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.7 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.1
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.0 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 27.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.6 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 1163.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 55.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 14.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 50.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 93.74676 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 612.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 240.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 714.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.991667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 17.900002 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 13.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 19.5 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 8.816667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 20.383333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 49.25512 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 326.58588
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 31.7 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 27.516666 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 27.216667 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.95
    Elevation 7.0 m