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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F280689

Preserved specimen of Plicatula (Plicatula) muricata Sowerby, 1873 recorded on 1979-09-19
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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 F280689
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F280689
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|Dry|dry
Collector Willis, J.H.  
Supplied as "J H. Willis"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 2
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

Event

Occurrence date 1979-09-19
Supplied date "1979-09-19T00:00:00\1979-09-19T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Conchifera | Bivalvia | Pteriomorphia | Ostreoida | Ostreina | Plicatuloidea | Plicatulidae
Scientific name Plicatula (Plicatula) muricata
Supplied scientific name "Plicatula muricata (Sowerby, 1873)"
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Pectinida
Supplied as "Ostreoida"
Family Plicatulidae
Genus Plicatula
Species Plicatula muricata
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship Sowerby, 1873
Supplied as (Sowerby, 1873)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Queensland
Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Port Douglas
Latitude -16.48
Supplied as: "-16.48"
Longitude 145.47
Supplied as: "145.47"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Port Douglas
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    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 Wet Tropic Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DOUGLAS SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 2242.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 121.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 112.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 88.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 1088.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 119.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1323.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.6 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 17.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 25.3 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 17.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 22.1 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.5 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 22.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.53 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.77
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 27.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.6 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.71
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0