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Occurrence record: Ornithology:B8040

Preserved specimen of Sterna (Sterna) striata Gmelin, 1789 | White-fronted Tern
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Ornithology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ornithology"
Catalog number B8040
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ornithology:PreservedSpecimen:B8040
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skin|Dry
Sex Female
Individual count 1
Life stage Juvenile
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1959, Month: 8, Day:
Supplied as year:1959  month:8 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae
Scientific name Sterna (Sterna) striata
Supplied scientific name "Sterna striata"
Identified to rank species
Common name White-fronted Tern
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes
Family Laridae
Genus Sterna
Species Sterna striata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gmelin, 1789
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Griffiths Is, Port Fairy
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 142.25
Supplied as: "142.25"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Griffiths Is, Port Fairy
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol AMG conversion, collection or Gazetteer
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Glenelg Hopkins
    NRM Regions 2017 Glenelg Hopkins
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Glenelg Hopkins
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 89707.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1859.0 frequency