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Occurrence record: Mammals:M38968

Preserved specimen of Rattus leucopus (J.E. Gray, 1867) | Cape York Rat recorded on 1981-03-13
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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 M38968
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Mammals:M38968
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations body parts in 70% ethanol
Record number Nelson#564
Sex male
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation M38968
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [John Nelson Brain Collection]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:169]

Event

Dataset / Survey name John Nelson Brain Collection  
Occurrence date 1981-03-13
Verbatim event date 13-Mar-1981
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Rattus leucopus
Identified to rank species
Common name Cape York Rat
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Rodentia
Family Muridae
Genus Rattus
Species Rattus leucopus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (J.E. Gray, 1867)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
State or Territory Morobe
Locality Wau Res Inst., hut 3, PNG
Latitude -7.35
Supplied as: "-7.35"
Longitude 146.72
Supplied as: "146.72"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Wau Res Inst., hut 3, PNG
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 500.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code PG
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume AGD66 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 22.120832 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 87.0 %