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Occurrence record: Birds:B19872

Preserved specimen of Phalacrocorax (Phalacrocorax) carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) | Great Cormorant recorded on 1977-11-06
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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 B19872
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B19872
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skin
Record number S1082
Sex not recorded
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B19872
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1977-11-06
Verbatim event date 06NOV1977
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Phalacrocorax (Phalacrocorax) carbo
Supplied scientific name "Phalacrocorax carbo"
Identified to rank species
Common name Great Cormorant
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Pelecaniformes
Family Phalacrocoracidae
Genus Phalacrocorax
Species Phalacrocorax carbo
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Australian Christmas Island Territory
Locality WEST WHITE BEACH, CHRISTMAS ISLAND, INDIAN OCEAN
Latitude -10.4625
Supplied as: "-10.4625"
Longitude 105.5806
Supplied as: "105.5806"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality WEST WHITE BEACH, CHRISTMAS ISLAND, INDIAN OCEAN
Water body not applicable
Island Christmas Island
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 Asia
Marine false
Country Code AU
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
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Continent country mismatch Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Christmas Island
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Christmas Island
    NRM Regions 2010 Christmas Island
    NRM Regions 2017 Christmas Island
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 7 Regions Indian Tropical Islands
    IBRA 7 Subregions Christmas Island
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Other Territories
    Local Government Areas 2011 Unincorp. Other Territories
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 0
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 9
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) OTHER TERRITORIES
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) OTHER TERRITORIES
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) LINGIARI
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) CHRISTMAS - COCOS (KEELING) IS.
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Very Remote Australia
    PSMA States (2016) OTHER TERRITORIES
    World Country Boundaries Christmas Island

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 24.079166 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 74.0 %