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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P041845

Preserved specimen of Meropesta nicobarica (Gmelin, 1791) | Radiately-ridged Trough Shell recorded on 2008-07-23
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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 P041845
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P041845
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
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
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2008

Event

Occurrence date 2008-07-23
Supplied as year:2008  month:7  day:23 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meropesta nicobarica
Identified to rank species
Common name Radiately-ridged Trough Shell
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Family Mactridae
Genus Meropesta
Species Meropesta nicobarica
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gmelin, 1791)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality NW. coast of Elcho Island, eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -11.80462
Supplied as: "-11.80462"
Longitude 135.88437
Supplied as: "135.88437"
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
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arnhem Land
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Arnhem Wessel
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Northern Territory
    Australian States and Territories Northern Territory
    Local Government Areas 2011 East Arnhem (S)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated East Arnhem - Bal
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) LINGIARI
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NHULUNBUY
    PSMA States (2016) NORTHERN TERRITORY
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous owned, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Rainforest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Eucalypt Medium Open
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Rainforests and vine thickets
    Vegetation types - present Rainforest and vine thickets

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 470.0 frequency
    Species Richness 261.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1448.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 111.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 621.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 81.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 952.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 20.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 17.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.3 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 13.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 19.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.1 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 26.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.61 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.51
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 33.1 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.5 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 63.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0