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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.61420

Preserved specimen of Megacardita turgida (Lamarck, 1819) recorded on 1938-05-30
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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.61420
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10403710","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.61420"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.61420
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Kerslake, J.  
Collector Ward, Mel  
Supplied as "Ward, Mel"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1980
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 29/Jun/2003";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10018703
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 29/Jun/2003";
Occurrence date 1938-05-30
Supplied date "1938-05-30/06-04"
Date precision DAY_RANGE
Event date end 1938-06-04

Taxonomy

Scientific name Megacardita turgida
Supplied scientific name "Cardita turgida (Lamarck, 1819)"
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Carditida
Family Carditidae
Genus Megacardita
Supplied as "Cardita"
Species Megacardita turgida
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Accepted name Cardita turgida (Lamarck, 1819)
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1819)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Lamarck, 1819)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Latitude -11.616
Supplied as: "-11.616"
Longitude 131.466
Supplied as: "131.466"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Melville Is, Cape Keith
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 46210 C] Australia, Northern Territory, Melville Is, Cape Keith (11° 37' 00" S, 131° 28' 00" E) 30/05/1938 - 04/06/1938, Ward, Mel(Collector), HMAS "Moresby".";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 11° 37' 0" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 131° 28' 0" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2015/12/21
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2015/12/21
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    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 Van Diemens Gulf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1564.3334 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 10.666667 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 107.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 472.66666 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 90.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1012.6667 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 9.666667
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.133333 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.333332 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 15.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 18.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 24.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.6 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.54
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 33.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.3 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5233333
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 1.0 m