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Occurrence record: MO:S17556

Preserved specimen of Megacardita nodulosa (Lamarck, 1819)
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection
Supplied collection code "MO"
Catalog number S17556
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:17556
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Slack-Smith, S.M.  
Collector Et, S.M.  
Supplied as "Slack-Smith, S.M. et al"
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Hand]

Event

Event ID Woodside Dampier Expedition III 1999
Occurrence date Year: 1999, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1999 
Sampling protocol Hand  
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Megacardita nodulosa
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Carditida
Supplied as "Carditoida"
Family Carditidae
Genus Megacardita
Supplied as "Cardita"
Species Megacardita nodulosa
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1819)
Supplied as Reeve, 1843
Name parse type DOUBTFUL

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -20.515
Supplied as: "-20.5150"
Longitude 116.6703
Supplied as: "116.6703"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality DA3/99/38
Island Malus Island
Island group Dampier Archipelago
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to Gps
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 20°30.90`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 116°40.22`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Ningaloo Reef & NW Western Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pilbarra (nearshore)
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF KARRATHA
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 246.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 48.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 99.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 137.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 18.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 139.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 23.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 23.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 26.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 26.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 21.3 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.8 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.25
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 35.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 30.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 30.5 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.08
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.15