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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:CS968

Human observation of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale recorded on 1991-05-23
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number CS968
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:572267"]
Record type Human observation
Supplied basis "HumanObservation"
Individual count 7
License CC-BY
Type Event
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Occurrence remarks Sighting Note: Many fishermen saw them, they were very aggressive couldn't get near them Images at South Australian Museum: no

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:207633
Occurrence date 1991-05-23
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Orcinus orca
Supplied scientific name "Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -38.07
Supplied as: "-38.07"
Longitude 140.62
Supplied as: "140.62"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Cape Northumberland | 3 km W
Coordinate precision 0.01
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38 04 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 140 37 E

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    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 South East
    NRM Regions 2017 South East
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South East
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)