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Occurrence record: Birds:B21232

Preserved specimen of Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, 1789) | Southern Giant-petrel recorded on 1973-12-02
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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 B21232
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B21232
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skeleton incomplete
License CC-BY
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Collection http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Country conservation Endangered
Dataset name / Survey name [ANWC salvage pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset ID [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:3]
State conservation Vulnerable

Event

Dataset name / Survey name ANWC salvage pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1973-12-02
Verbatim event date 02DEC1973
End day of year 336
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 336

Taxonomy

Scientific name Macronectes giganteus
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Giant-petrel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Procellariiformes
Supplied as "Procellariformes"
Family Procellariidae
Genus Macronectes
Species Macronectes giganteus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gmelin, 1789)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality NORTH SHORE, MACQUARIE ISLAND
Latitude -54.5
Supplied as: "-54.5"
Longitude 159.0
Supplied as: "159.0"
Datum EPSG:4326
Water body not applicable
Island Macquarie Island
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.08333
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
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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