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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:CS1711

Human observation of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale recorded on 1993-11-10
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number CS1711
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:573010"]
Record type Human observation
Supplied basis "HumanObservation"
Individual count 2
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Occurrence remarks 50m from shore. 200m from observer. Images at South Australian Museum: no

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:208250
Occurrence date 1993-11-10
Date precision DAY
Event time 13:00:

Taxonomy

Scientific name Orcinus orca
Supplied scientific name "Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -36.07
Supplied as: "-36.07"
Longitude 136.72
Supplied as: "136.72"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Admirals Arch
Coordinate precision 0.01
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 36 04 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 136 43 E

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    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Western Kangaroo Island
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Western Kangaroo Island
    NRM Regions 2010 Kangaroo Island
    NRM Regions 2017 Kangaroo Island
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Kangaroo Island
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Eyre
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)