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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P055947

Preserved specimen of Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Hammer Oyster recorded on 2015-11-04
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Dataset

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 P055947
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P055947
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 2016

Event

Occurrence date 2015-11-04
Supplied as year:2015  month:11  day:4 
End day of year 308
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 308

Taxonomy

Scientific name Malleus malleus
Identified to rank species
Common name Hammer Oyster
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Ostreida
Family Malleidae
Genus Malleus
Species Malleus malleus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
Locality Parry Shoals, eastern Timor Sea, 60 km WNW. of northern coast of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -11.20833
Supplied as: "-11.20833"
Longitude 129.705
Supplied as: "129.705"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS 84"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Oceanic Shoals
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Oceanic Shoals
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Oceanic Shoals
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Oceanic Shoals
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Oceanic Shoals
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northwest Shelf Transition
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Oceanic Shoals
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory
    Marine
    Australia's network of Marine Parks Oceanic Shoals Marine Park
    Australian Marine Parks 2024 Oceanic Shoals
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 178.0 frequency
    Species Richness 93.0 frequency