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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P034440

Preserved specimen of Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778) | Rock Oyster recorded on 2005-12-12
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P034440
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P034440
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2006

Event

Occurrence date 2005-12-12
Supplied as year:2005  month:12  day:12 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Saccostrea cucullata
Identified to rank species
Common name Rock Oyster
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Ostreida
Family Ostreidae
Genus Saccostrea
Species Saccostrea cucullata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Born, 1778)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality off (new) Deckchair Cinema, eastern end of Kitchener Bay, inshore from Fort Hill Wharf, upper East Arm, Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -12.46828
Supplied as: "-12.46828"
Longitude 130.8413
Supplied as: "130.8413"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Anson Beagle
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DARWIN MUNICIPALITY
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) PORT DARWIN
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Tropical eucalypt woodlands/grasslands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1715.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 111.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 443.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 112.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1155.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 8.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.9 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.7 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 19.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.61 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.5
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 33.5 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.2 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.3 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 14.0 m