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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.125325

Preserved specimen of Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885) | Ovalbone Cuttlefish recorded on 1962-10-13
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Dataset

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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.125325
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10468289,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.125325"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Miller, Ms Alison Clair - Australian Museum - Malacology  
Collector Australian Museum party
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2025-01-17
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 02/Mar/2007

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10035485
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 02/Mar/2007
Occurrence date 1962-10-13
Supplied date "1962-10-13/1962-10-20"
End day of year 293
Date precision DAY_RANGE
Start day of year 286
Event date end 1962-10-20

Taxonomy

Scientific name Acanthosepion ellipticum
Supplied scientific name "Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Ovalbone Cuttlefish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Acanthosepion
Species Acanthosepion ellipticum
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885)
Scientific name authorship (Hoyle, 1885)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Hoyle, 1885)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -21.716667
Supplied as: "-21.716667"
Longitude 152.41667
Supplied as: "152.41667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality GBR, Swain Reefs, Bylund (Gillett) Cay, W side
Location remarks [MAL# 8541 C] Australia, Queensland, GBR, Swain Reefs, Bylund (Gillett) Cay, W side (21° 43' 00" S, 152° 25' 00" E) 13/10/1962 - 20/10/1962, Australian Museum party(Collector)
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 21° 43' 00" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 152° 25' 00" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Pompey & Swain Reefs, South-east GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Pompey-Swains
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pompey-Swains
    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
    Electorates March 2025 Capricornia
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 ISAAC REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MIRANI

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 5678.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1105.0 frequency