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Occurrence record: Mammals:M12567

Preserved specimen of Spilocuscus Gray, 1862 | Spotted Cuscus recorded on 1965-05-02
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammals"
Catalog number M12567
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Mammals:M12567
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations cranium
Sex not recorded
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation M12567
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [1965 Papua New Guinea East Sepik April-May]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:119]

Event

Dataset / Survey name 1965 Papua New Guinea East Sepik April-May  
Occurrence date 1965-05-02
Verbatim event date 02MAY1965
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Spilocuscus
Supplied scientific name "Spilocuscus maculatus"
Identified to rank genus
Common name Spotted Cuscus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Diprotodontia
Family Phalangeridae
Genus Spilocuscus
Species Spilocuscus maculatus
Name match metric higherMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1862
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
State or Territory Western Highlands
Locality UINBA, WAHGI VALLEY, NEAR MINJ, KUBOR RANGE
Latitude -5.9917
Supplied as: "-5.9917"
Longitude 144.6167
Supplied as: "144.6167"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality UINBA, WAHGI VALLEY, NEAR MINJ, KUBOR RANGE
Water body not applicable
Island New Guinea
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.00139
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code PG
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Data quality tests

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    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1254.0 frequency
    Species Richness 308.0 frequency
    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 13.408334 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 88.0 %