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Occurrence record: Ichthyology:R13265

Preserved specimen of Orectolobus halei Whitley, 1940 | Carpetshark
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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 Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number R13265
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ichthyology:PreservedSpecimen:R13265
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Spirit specimen|Wet|unknown|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dianne J. Bray - Museums Victoria  
Collector J A. Kershaw
Sex Female
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
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 2018-01-03
Supplied as 03/01/2018

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1910, Month: 10, Day:
Supplied as year:1910  month:10 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Craniata | Gnathostomata | Chondrichthyes | Elasmobranchii | Orectolobiformes | Orectolobidae
Scientific name Orectolobus halei
Supplied scientific name "Orectolobus halei Whitley, 1940"
Identified to rank species
Common name Carpetshark
Supplied common name "Gulf Wobbegong"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Orectolobiformes
Family Orectolobidae
Genus Orectolobus
Species Orectolobus halei
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Whitley, 1940
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Great Barrier Reef, Capricorn Group, Mast Head Island
Latitude -23.5408
Supplied as: "-23.5408"
Longitude 151.729
Supplied as: "151.729"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Great Barrier Reef, Capricorn Group, Mast Head Island
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Google Earth
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Mackay-Capricorn
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Mackay-Capricorn
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Southern and Western Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Flynn
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 GLADSTONE REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) GLADSTONE

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 11875.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1801.0 frequency
    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 1314.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 165.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 33.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 129.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 60.546238 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 584.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 232.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 616.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 22.708334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 13.099999 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 15.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 18.9 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 5.5499997 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 20.75 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 42.366413 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 287.4483
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 28.9 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 25.9 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 25.816668 °C