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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P057488

Preserved specimen of Pteria heteroptera (Lamarck, 1819) recorded on 2017-05-23
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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 P057488
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P057488
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 2017

Event

Occurrence date 2017-05-23
Supplied as year:2017  month:5  day:23 
End day of year 143
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 143

Taxonomy

Scientific name Pteria heteroptera
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Ostreida
Family Pteriidae
Genus Pteria
Species Pteria heteroptera
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1819)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Boyd Bay, 40 km south of Weipa, NE. section of Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Queensland, Australia.
Latitude -12.90472
Supplied as: "-12.90472"
Longitude 141.64897
Supplied as: "141.64897"
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 Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) West Cape York
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northern Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Cape York
    NRM Regions 2017 Cape York
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Cape York
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Cape York
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions West Cape York
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Wik & Wik Way People and Rio Tinto Aluminium Limited ILUA
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Cape York Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Wik & Wik Way People and Rio Tinto Aluminium Limited ILUA
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 COOK SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 213.0 frequency
    Species Richness 148.0 frequency