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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P004762

Preserved specimen of Bactronophorus thoracites Gould, 1856 | Stilt Palleted Shipworm recorded on 1994-10-13
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P004762
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P004762
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1994

Event

Occurrence date 1994-10-13
Supplied as year:1994  month:10  day:13 
End day of year 286
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 286

Taxonomy

Scientific name Bactronophorus thoracites
Identified to rank species
Common name Stilt Palleted Shipworm
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Myida
Family Teredinidae
Genus Bactronophorus
Species Bactronophorus thoracites
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gould, 1856
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality Shoal Bay, north of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -12.11667
Supplied as: "-12.11667"
Longitude 131.0
Supplied as: "131"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Anson Beagle
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northwest Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Anson Beagle
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NELSON

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 2248.0 frequency
    Species Richness 874.0 frequency