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Occurrence record: Fishes:I24692

Preserved specimen of Venefica proboscidea (Vaillant, 1888) | Periscope Duckbill Eel recorded on 1988-08-30
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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 Fishes
Supplied collection code "Fishes"
Catalog number I24692
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Fishes:I24692
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Identified by J Pogonoski  
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Field notes Cidaris II | Station 4.4
Sampling protocol [Trawl - Beam]
Date identified 2011-07-25
Supplied as 25 Jul 2011

Event

Occurrence date 1988-08-30
Sampling protocol Trawl - Beam  
Verbatim event date 30 Aug 1988
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Venefica proboscidea
Identified to rank species
Common name Periscope Duckbill Eel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Anguilliformes
Family Nettastomatidae
Genus Venefica
Species Venefica proboscidea
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Vaillant, 1888)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
Locality Coral Sea
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -14.886667
Supplied as: "-14.886667"
Longitude 145.924833
Supplied as: "145.924833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Water body Coral Sea
Minimum depth in metres 2160
Maximum depth in metres 2245
Field notes Cidaris II | Station 4.4
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 500.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 14° 53' 12" South
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 55' 29.4" East

Additional properties

object id 141484

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