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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:A2407

Preserved specimen of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number A2407
Occurrence ID urn:catalog:TMAG:Mammalogy:A2407
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by M Morrice  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1997, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1997 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Orcinus orca
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Seven Mile Beach
Latitude -42.8586159
Supplied as: "-42.86"
Longitude 147.5110362
Supplied as: "147.51"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Cape York
    NRM Regions 2017 Cape York
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Cape York
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bruny
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Cook
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 COOK SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1837.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 98.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 3.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 65.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 95.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 840.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 103.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1099.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 25.7 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 13.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 22.6 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 24.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.72
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 28.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.6 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.64
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 76.0 m