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Occurrence record: Herpetology:J98212

Preserved specimen of Emydura macquarii (Gray, 1830) | Macquarie River Turtle recorded on 1980-03-20
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Amphibians and Reptiles
Supplied collection code "Herpetology"
Catalog number J98212
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Herpetology:J98212
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Identified by A Amey  
Life stage Male
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Field notes UU18178
Data generalizations Record is Least Concern in Queensland. Generalised to 2km by Qld DEHP.

Event

Occurrence date 1980-03-20
Verbatim event date 20 Mar 1980
End day of year 80
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 80

Taxonomy

Scientific name Emydura macquarii
Supplied scientific name "Emydura macquarii nigra"
Identified to rank species
Supplied as "Subspecies"
Common name Macquarie River Turtle
Supplied common name "Fraser Island Short-necked Turtle"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Testudines
Family Chelidae
Genus Emydura
Species Emydura macquarii
Name match metric exactMatch
Infraspecific epithet nigra
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1830)
Supplied as McCord, Cann and Jospeh-Ouni, 2003
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -25.4
Supplied as: "-25.4"
Longitude 153.0
Supplied as: "153.0"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Min elevation 100
Field notes UU18178
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
Coordinates generalised Due to sensitivity concerns, the coordinates of this record have been generalised: "Record is Least Concern in Queensland. Generalised to 2km by Qld DEHP.".
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Keppel Islands & Capricorn Bunker Reefs, Souther GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Hervey Bay - Tin Can Bay
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Hervey Bay - Tin Can Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Hervey Bay - Tin Can Bay
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Hervey Bay - Tin Can Bay
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Sandy Strait
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tweed-Moreton
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Burnett Mary
    NRM Regions 2017 Burnett Mary
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Burnett Mary
    RAMSAR wetland regions Great Sandy Strait (including Great Sandy Strait, Tin Can Bay and Tin Can Inlet).
    Ramsar Wetlands of Australia 2024 Great Sandy Strait (including Great Sandy Strait, Tin Can Bay and Tin Can Inlet)
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burnett Mary
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Southern and Western Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 FRASER COAST REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) HERVEY BAY
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Sea, estuaries (includes seagrass)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 3363.0 frequency
    Species Richness 881.0 frequency