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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.451923

Preserved specimen of Amphioctopus exannulatus (Norman, 1993) | Plain-spot Octopus recorded on 1979-02-15
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.451923
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10449819","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.451923"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.451923
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations ecatalogue.PreStorageMedium: "70% ethanol";
Identified by Stranks, T N  
Collector Aus. Mus. Fish Dept.
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1987-05
Supplied as 1987-5
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 26/Jan/2006";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10061663
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 26/Jan/2006";
Occurrence date 1979-02-15
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Amphioctopus exannulatus
Supplied scientific name "Octopus membranaceus auctt"
Identified to rank species
Common name Plain-spot Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Amphioctopus
Supplied as "Octopus"
Species Amphioctopus exannulatus
Name match metric higherMatch
Accepted name Octopus membranaceus auctt
Scientific name authorship (Norman, 1993)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -11.55
Supplied as: "-11.55"
Longitude 142.95
Supplied as: "142.95"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality GBR, 2ml NE of Hannibal Is
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 33776] Australia, Queensland, GBR, 2ml NE of Hannibal Is (11° 33' 00" S, 142° 57' 00" E) 15/02/1979 - 15/02/1979, Australian Museum - Ichthyology(Collector), Prawn trawl. "Lady Basten".";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 11° 33' 0" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 142° 57' 0" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2018/6/27
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2018/6/27
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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