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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P029366

Preserved specimen of Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima (Röding, 1798) | Great Clam recorded on 1994-08-20
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P029366
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P029366
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
Identified date 2004
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2004

Event

Occurrence date 1994-08-20
Supplied as year:1994  month:8  day:20 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima
Supplied scientific name "Tridacna maxima"
Identified to rank species
Common name Great Clam
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Family Cardiidae
Genus Tridacna
Species Tridacna maxima
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Röding, 1798)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Locality rocky bay on central west coast of Angel Island, Dampier Archipelago, central Western Australia.
Latitude -20.49483
Supplied as: "-20.49483"
Longitude 116.79183
Supplied as: "116.79183"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pilbarra (nearshore)
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF KARRATHA
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Other special rights, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Hummock Grasslands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Acacia (+/- low) open woodlands and sparse shrublands with hummock grass
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 248.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 48.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 99.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 136.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 18.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 141.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 23.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 23.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 27.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 26.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 21.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.1 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.27
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 35.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 30.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 30.5 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 26.129166 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.08
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.15