Occurrence record: Ichthyology:I.51784-004

Preserved specimen of Maccullochella peelii (Mitchell, 1838) | Murray Cod recorded on 2025-03-24

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Dataset

Data partner	OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource	Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code	Australian Museum Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection	Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number	I.51784-004
Other catalog numbers	["ecatalogue.irn:10584298,urn:catalog:AM:Ichthyology:I.51784-004"]
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by	Unmack, Dr Peter - University of Canberra - Institute for Applied Ecology
Collector	P. Unmack, L. Pearce & M. Campbell
License	CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment	Angling and Electrofisher
Presence/Absence	PRESENT
Sampling protocol	[Angling and Electrofisher]
Country conservation	Vulnerable
Date identified	2024-01-01
Identification remarks	Maccullochella peelii

Event

Event ID	urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10079022
Identification remarks	Maccullochella peelii
Occurrence date	2025-03-24 Supplied date "2025-03-24/2025-03-27"
Sampling protocol	Angling and Electrofisher
End day of year	86
Date precision	DAY_RANGE
Start day of year	83
Event date end	2025-03-27

Taxonomy

Scientific name	Maccullochella peelii Supplied scientific name "Maccullochella peelii (Mitchell, 1838)"
Identified to rank	species
Common name	Murray Cod
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Perciformes
Family	Percichthyidae
Genus	Maccullochella
Species	Maccullochella peelii
Name match metric	exactMatch
Accepted name	Maccullochella peelii (Mitchell, 1838)
Scientific name authorship	(Mitchell, 1838)
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Name according to	(Mitchell, 1838)

Geospatial

Country	Australia
State or Territory	New South Wales
Latitude	-34.27139 Supplied as: "-34.27139"
Longitude	150.80722 Supplied as: "150.80722"
Datum	EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality	Cataract Dam
Location remarks	[I.51784] Australia, New South Wales, Cataract Dam (34° 16' 17" S, 150° 48' 26" E) 24/03/2025 - 27/03/2025, Unmack, Dr Peter - University of Canberra - Institute for Applied Ecology(Collector), Pearce, Luke(Collector), Campbell, Matthew(Collector), Angling and Electrofisher, Field Collected - Aquatic
Coordinate precision	Unknown
Terrestrial	true
Verbatim latitude	34° 16' 17" S
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Marine	false
Country Code	AU
Verbatim longitude	150° 48' 26" E

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Additional political boundaries information

Area Management
GER National Corridor	GER National Corridor
GER Southern Highlands	GER Southern Highlands
Great Eastern Ranges Initiative	GER Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions)	Sydney Basin
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon)	Sydney Cataract
NRM Regions 2010	Hawkesbury-Nepean
NRM Regions 2017	South East NSW
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023	South East NSW
Area management
National Landcare Program Management Units 2018	South East NSW
Biodiversity
IBRA 6 Regions	Sydney Basin
IBRA 7 Regions	Sydney Basin
IBRA 7 Subregions	Sydney Cataract
Hydrology
Australian Drainage Divisions 2021	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 1	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 2	HAWKESBURY RIVER
Indigenous
Indigenous Areas 2021	Southern Tablelands
Indigenous Locations 2021	Wingecaribee
Indigenous Regions 2021	South-Eastern NSW
RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024	New South Wales
Marine
States including coastal waters	New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
Political
ASGS Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021	Cunningham
Electorates March 2025	Cunningham
Local Government Areas 2011	Wollongong (C)
Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated	Wollongong Bal
Local Government Areas 2023	Wollongong
Local Government Areas PSMA 2018	WOLLONGONG CITY COUNCIL
NSW Local Land Services Regions	South East
PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016)	11
PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016)	2781
PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016)	REST OF NSW
PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016)	ILLAWARRA CATCHMENT RESERVE
PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016)	ILLAWARRA CATCHMENT RESERVE
PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016)	ILLAWARRA
PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018)	CUNNINGHAM
PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016)	SOUTHERN TABLELANDS
PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016)	WINGECARIBEE
PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016)	SOUTH-EASTERN NSW
PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016)	Inner Regional Australia
PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018)	LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PSMA States (2016)	NEW SOUTH WALES
State Electoral Divisions 2022	Heathcote
World Country Boundaries	Australia
Sensitive Data Layers
Phylloxera Infection Zone - Sydney, New South Wales	Sydney Phylloxera Zone
Social
Australia 2021	Australia
Destination Zones 2021	Illawarra Catchment Reserve
Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021	Rest of NSW
Postal Areas 2021	2560
Remoteness Areas 2021	Inner Regional Australia
States and Territories 2021	New South Wales
Statistical Areas Level 1	10702113501
Statistical Areas Level 2	Illawarra Catchment Reserve
Statistical Areas Level 3	Illawarra Catchment Reserve
Statistical Areas Level 4	Illawarra
Tourism Regions 2021	South Coast
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	Inland aquatic - freshwater, salt lakes, lagoons
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups	Freshwater, dams, lakes, lagoons or aquatic plants
Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0	Private Freehold
Vegetation types - native	Eucalypt open forests
Vegetation types - present	cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	49018.0 frequency
Species Richness	1392.0 frequency
Climate
Precipitation - annual (Bio12)	1101.0 mm
Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19)	219.0 mm
Precipitation - driest period (Bio14)	11.0 mm
Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17)	190.0 mm
Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15)	25.0 mm
Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18)	318.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13)	32.0 mm
Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16)	361.0 mm
Radiation - annual mean (Bio20)	16.3 MJ/m2/day
Radiation - seasonality (Bio23)	35.0
Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26)	21.9 MJ/m2/day
Temperature - annual mean (Bio01)	16.0 degrees C
Temperature - annual range (Bio07)	21.8 degrees C
Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06)	4.7 degrees C
Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11)	10.8 degrees C
Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02)	10.4 degrees C
Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09)	11.7 degrees C
Temperature - isothermality (Bio03)	0.48 %
Temperature - seasonality (Bio04)	1.35
Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05)	26.4 degrees C
Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10)	20.8 degrees C
Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08)	19.1 degrees C
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual	1178.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter	244.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month	54.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter	203.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality	24.964426 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter	322.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month	142.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter	381.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean	15.2375 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range	19.4 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min	5.1 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean	10.266666 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean	9.058333 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean	11.0 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality	46.69244 %
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality	383.7383
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max	24.5 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean	19.783333 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean	19.65 °C
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality	48.0 %
Substrate
Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28)	0.79
Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32)	0.99
Elevation	263.0 m

Group	Field Name	Original Value	Processed Value


Classification	Scientific name	Maccullochella peelii (Mitchell, 1838)	Maccullochella peelii
	Match type		exactMatch
	Phylum id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/065f1da4-53cd-40b8-a396-80fa5c74dedd
	Family id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/f51423fa-e5a8-4ec9-86f1-84aef63d7f5e
	Taxon concept ID		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/3dc33778-3467-40f8-918a-3d8a2ef087a5
	Order		Perciformes
	Taxon rank id		7000
	Accepted name usage	Maccullochella peelii (Mitchell, 1838)
	Species id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/3dc33778-3467-40f8-918a-3d8a2ef087a5
	Taxon identification issue	[ID_PRE_OCCURRENCE]
	Genus	Maccullochella	Maccullochella
	Left		20910
	Scientific name authorship		(Mitchell, 1838)
	Taxon rank		species
	Genus id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/be737e24-2b60-495c-8bab-ba16157b44b7
	Name type		SCIENTIFIC
	Vernacular name	Murray Cod	Murray Cod
	Name according to	(Mitchell, 1838)
	Order id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/e3fda0ff-4705-4a40-8991-1dfabdadcfae
	Right		20910
	Kingdom	Animalia	Animalia
	Specific epithet	peelii
	Class id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/83e82cc3-be4e-40e8-9e7a-985737c4f726
	Phylum	Chordata	Chordata
	Class		Actinopterygii
	Species		Maccullochella peelii
	Family		Percichthyidae
	Kingdom id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/4647863b-760d-4b59-aaa1-502c8cdf8d3c
Event	Event ID	urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10079022
	Year		2025
	End day of year		86
	Month		3
	Date precision		DAY_RANGE
	Start day of year		83
	Event date end	2025-03-27
	Event date	2025-03-24/2025-03-27	2025-03-24
Identification	Date identified	2024-01-01	2024-01-01
	Identification remarks	Maccullochella peelii
	Identified by	[Unmack, Dr Peter - University of Canberra - Institute for Applied Ecology]
Occurrence	Degree of establishment	Angling and Electrofisher
	Catalog number	I.51784-004
	Occurrence status		PRESENT
	Basis of record	PreservedSpecimen	PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
	Modified	2026-05-06	2026-05-06
	Collection code	Ichthyology
	Sampling protocol	[Angling and Electrofisher]
	Institution code	AM
	Country conservation		Vulnerable
	Recorded by	P. Unmack, L. Pearce & M. Campbell
	Other catalog numbers	[ecatalogue.irn:10584298,urn:catalog:AM:Ichthyology:I.51784-004]
Attribution	Data resource		Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
	Collection		Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection
	License		CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
	Data provider uid		dp20
	Provenance		Published dataset
	Data Resource ID	dr340	dr340
	Institution ID		in4
	Data partner		OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
	Institution		Australian Museum
	Data hub uid	[dh1]
	Collection ID		co112
Location	Country	Australia	Australia
	Decimal latitude	-34.27139	-34.27139
	Terrestrial	true	true
	Decimal longitude	150.80722	150.80722
	State province	New South Wales	New South Wales
	Verbatim locality	Cataract Dam
	Verbatim latitude	34° 16' 17" S
	Biome		TERRESTRIAL
	Lga	Wollongong (C)
	Marine	false	false
	Location remarks	[I.51784] Australia, New South Wales, Cataract Dam (34° 16' 17" S, 150° 48' 26" E) 24/03/2025 - 27/03/2025, Unmack, Dr Peter - University of Canberra - Institute for Applied Ecology(Collector), Pearce, Luke(Collector), Campbell, Matthew(Collector), Angling and Electrofisher, Field Collected - Aquatic
	Country code		AU
	Verbatim longitude	150° 48' 26" E
	Geodetic datum		EPSG:4326

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