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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F220362

Preserved specimen of Octopus maorum Hutton, 1880 | Maori Octopus recorded on 2015-01-22
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F220362
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F220362
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|Wet|formalin 10%, buffered|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dr Julian K. Finn - Museum Victoria  
Identified date 30/01/2015
Collector 1.  Museum Victoria   2.  Silvey, Colin   3.  Museum Victoria  
Supplied as "Dr Julian Finn - Museum Victoria | Colin Silvey - Museum Victoria"
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [SCUBA, hand net]
Date identified 2015-01-30
Supplied as 30/01/2015

Event

Occurrence date 2015-01-22
Supplied date "2015-01-22T10:52:00\2015-01-23T00:24:00"
Sampling protocol SCUBA, hand net  
Date precision DAY
Event time 10:52:00\00:24:00

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Octopoda | Incirrata | Octopodidae
Scientific name Octopus maorum
Supplied scientific name "Octopus maorum Hutton, 1880"
Identified to rank species
Common name Maori Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Octopus
Species Octopus maorum
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Hutton, 1880
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | South Australia
Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Locality Yorke Peninsula, North of Edithburgh Jetty
Latitude -35.0837
Supplied as: "-35.0837"
Longitude 137.749
Supplied as: "137.749"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Yorke Peninsula, North of Edithburgh Jetty
Minimum depth in metres 1
Maximum depth in metres 3.1
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources data provided with specimen(s)
Georeference protocol gps original
Georeferenced by Colin Silvey - Museum Victoria
Terrestrial true
Georeferenced date 2015-01-30T00:00
Supplied as 2015-01-30T00:00:00
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Lower Yorke Peninsula
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Lower Yorke Peninsula
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions St Vincent Gulf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Narungga Local Government
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 ROPER GULF REGION
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BARKLY
    Vegetation
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    Vegetation types - native unknown/no data
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 893.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 5.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 3.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 119.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 284.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 57.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 633.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 14.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 24.8 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 23.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 15.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 23.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 13.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 23.5 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.56 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.05
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 38.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 31.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 29.7 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 27.716667 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.39
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.97