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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F77764

Preserved specimen of Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852 | Gloomy Octopus recorded on 1995-07-18
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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 Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F77764
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F77764
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by T N. Stranks  
Collector Graham, K.  
Supplied as "K Graham"
Sex Unknown
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
Field Number K95-08-01
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 1995

Event

Event ID K95-08-01
Field Number K95-08-01
Occurrence date 1995-07-18
Supplied date "1995-07-18T00:00:00\1995-07-18T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Octopoda | Incirrata | Octopodidae
Scientific name Octopus tetricus
Supplied scientific name "Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852"
Identified to rank species
Common name Gloomy Octopus
Supplied common name "Common Sydney Octopus"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Octopus
Species Octopus tetricus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gould, 1852
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | New South Wales
Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Locality Off Newcastle
Latitude -33.03
Supplied as: "-33.03"
Longitude 151.8
Supplied as: "151.8"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Off Newcastle
Minimum depth in metres 58
Maximum depth in metres 73
Coordinate precision Unknown
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
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Hawkesbury Shelf