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Occurrence record: Birds:B03533

Preserved specimen of Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | Southern Cassowary recorded on 1966-01-27
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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 "Birds"
Catalog number B03533
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B03533
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skin
Record number RS206
Sex male
Associated Occurrence Status Representative record
Associated occurrences This record has 1 inferred associated occurrences
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B03533
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Associated records REPRESENTATIVE
Dataset / Survey name [1966 Gulf and Morobe January-April]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:121]

Event

Dataset / Survey name 1966 Gulf and Morobe January-April  
Occurrence date 1966-01-27
Verbatim event date 27JAN1966
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Casuarius casuarius
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Cassowary
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Struthioniformes
Family Casuariidae
Genus Casuarius
Species Casuarius casuarius
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
State or Territory Gulf
Locality LOHIKI/VAILALA RIVER JUNCTION; LOHIKI VILLAGE, MAIN CAMP
Habitat
Supplied as "PRIMARY ALLUVIAL FOREST"
Latitude -7.6667
Supplied as: "-7.6667"
Longitude 145.9833
Supplied as: "145.9833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality LOHIKI/VAILALA RIVER JUNCTION
Water body not applicable
Island New Guinea
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Elevation 70FT
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

    Test name Result
    First of the year Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record has been identified as the representative occurrence in a group of associated occurrences. This mean other records have been detected that seem to relate to this record and this particular record has the most detailed information on the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 1aaf4e8b-75fb-4edb-b9c9-685479ba3ab5
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -7.6667,145.9833
    Related records
    Record UUID 4e7ae9cb-454d-49b7-9ae4-ee53ead888ce
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -7.6667,145.9833

    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 24.420834 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 82.0 %