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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.58954

Preserved specimen of Trypanosyllis Claparède, 1864 recorded on 2025-10-30
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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 Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number W.58954
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10668399,urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.58954"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Harris, Ms Leslie H. - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Research and Collections (Polychaetous Annelids Collection)  
Collector Biological Processing Team
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment beam trawl
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [beam trawl]
Date identified 2026
Identification remarks n.sp.

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10094211
Identification remarks n.sp.
Occurrence date 2025-10-30
Supplied date "2025-10-30/2025-10-30"
Sampling protocol beam trawl  
End day of year 303
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 303

Taxonomy

Scientific name Trypanosyllis
Supplied scientific name "Trypanosyllis sp."
Identified to rank genus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Phyllodocida
Family Syllidae
Genus Trypanosyllis
Species Trypanosyllis sp.
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Trypanosyllis sp.
Scientific name authorship Claparède, 1864
Name parse type INFORMAL

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -18.374722
Supplied as: "-18.374722"
Longitude 155.32028
Supplied as: "155.32028"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Coral Sea, Mellish Seamount 5
Location remarks [IN2025_V06_117] Australia, Queensland, Coral Sea, Mellish Seamount 5 (18° 22' 44" S, 155° 19' 06" E) 30/10/2025 - 30/10/2025, Biological Processing Team(Collector), beam trawl
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 18° 22' 29" S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 155° 19' 13" E

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verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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