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Occurrence record: Reptile:R10982

Preserved specimen of Hydrophis macdowelli Kharin, 1983 | Small-headed Seasnake recorded on 1983-01-12
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Dataset

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 Reptile Collection
Supplied collection code "Reptile"
Catalog number R10982
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Reptile:R10982
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by J. Nankivell  
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
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
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Date identified 2019

Event

Occurrence date 1983-01-12
Supplied as year:1983  month:1  day:12 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Hydrophis macdowelli
Identified to rank species
Common name Small-headed Seasnake
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Supplied as "Serpentes"
Family Elapidae
Supplied as "Hydrophiidae"
Genus Hydrophis
Species Hydrophis macdowelli
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Kharin, 1983
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality Mindil Beach, Darwin
Latitude -12.45
Supplied as: "-12.45"
Longitude 130.817
Supplied as: "130.817"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 76ed4003-b22a-4d48-be40-c08f67ac1ea3
    Data Resource
    Raw Scientific Name Hydrophis mcdowelli
    Coordinates -12.45,130.8167
    Related records
    Record UUID 29aa7108-21d8-4fd5-8d74-73a1027f1ab6
    Data Resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Hydrophis macdowelli
    Coordinates -12.45,130.817

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    NRM Regions 2010 Condamine
    NRM Regions 2017 Condamine
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Condamine
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Anson Beagle
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) SOUTHERN DOWNS
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Unresolved Tenure

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 650.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 93.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 5.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 89.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 39.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 246.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 20.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 249.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 26.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 24.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 18.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 28.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 11.7 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 14.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 12.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.73
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.1 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 24.5 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 24.5 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.37
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.49