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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.137043

Preserved specimen of Ovula ovum (Linnaeus, 1758) | Egg Cowry recorded on 1961
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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.137043
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10439672","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.137043"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.137043
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Leroi, Anne  
Specimen type cited: Ovula ovum (Linnaeus, 1758) : Ovulidae : : Gastropoda : Mollusca;cited: Ovula ovum (Linne, 1758) : Ovulidae : : Gastropoda : Mollusca
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1983
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Jul/2005";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10003358
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Jul/2005";
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1961, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1961"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Ovula ovum
Supplied scientific name "Ovula ovum (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Egg Cowry
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Family Ovulidae
Genus Ovula
Species Ovula ovum
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Ovula ovum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -16.5
Supplied as: "-16.5"
Longitude 146.0
Supplied as: "146.0"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Great Barrier Reef
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 17813 C] Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef (16° 30' 00" S, 146° 00' 00" E) 1961 - 1961, Accession";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100000.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 16° 30' 0" S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 146° 0' 0" E

Additional properties

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dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2020/6/30
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 10km-100km

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    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 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 Central Reef
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
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