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Occurrence record: Crustacea:W52208

Preserved specimen of Portunus armatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) | Blue Swimmer Crab recorded on 2004-10-17
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Dataset

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 W52208
Other catalog numbers ["SBD2008013"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Crustacea:W52208
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Identified by D Potter  
Sex Adult
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Trawl]
Previous identifications Portunus pelagicus
Date identified 2015-02-04
Supplied as 04 Feb 2015

Event

Occurrence date 2004-10-17
Sampling protocol Trawl  
Verbatim event date 17 Oct 2004
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Portunus armatus
Identified to rank species
Common name Blue Swimmer Crab
Supplied common name "Australian Blue Swimmer Crab"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Portunidae
Genus Portunus
Species Portunus armatus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
Supplied as (A. Milne Edwards, 1861)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Great Barrier Reef, site 1565
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -16.905
Supplied as: "-16.905"
Longitude 145.965
Supplied as: "145.965"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Minimum depth in metres 39
Coordinate precision 0.000278
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 50.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 16° 54' 18" South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 57' 54" East

Additional properties

object id 208299

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    NRM Regions 2010 Wet Tropics
    NRM Regions 2017 Wet Tropics
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Wet Tropics
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Wet Tropic Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CAIRNS REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MULGRAVE

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 7279.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1203.0 frequency