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Occurrence record: Crustacea:W12273

Preserved specimen of Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758) | Reef Box Crab recorded on 1944-07-28
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Crustaceans
Supplied collection code "Crustacea"
Catalog number W12273
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Crustacea:W12273
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Occurrence date 1944-07-28
Verbatim event date 28 Jul 1944
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Calappa hepatica
Identified to rank species
Common name Reef Box Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Calappidae
Genus Calappa
Species Calappa hepatica
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Cockle Bay
Latitude -19.183333
Supplied as: "-19.183333"
Longitude 146.816667
Supplied as: "146.816667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 19° 11' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 146° 49' East

Additional properties

object id CR9007

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