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Occurrence record: Fish:S.17311-004

Preserved specimen of Arrhamphus sclerolepis Günther, 1866 | Snubnose Garfish recorded on 1975-07-02
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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 Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Fish"
Catalog number S.17311-004
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Fish:S.17311_004
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by R.S. Williams  
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 2012

Event

Occurrence date 1975-07-02
Supplied as year:1975  month:7  day:2 
End day of year 183
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 183

Taxonomy

Scientific name Arrhamphus sclerolepis
Identified to rank species
Common name Snubnose Garfish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Beloniformes
Supplied as "Atheriniformes"
Family Hemiramphidae
Genus Arrhamphus
Species Arrhamphus sclerolepis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Günther, 1866
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality West Woody Reef, Melville Bay
Latitude -12.182
Supplied as: "-12.182"
Longitude 136.672
Supplied as: "136.672"
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
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arnhem Land
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Dhimurru
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Dhimurru
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Dhimurru
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Groote
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Protected Areas 2013 Dhimurru
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NHULUNBUY

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1190.0 frequency
    Species Richness 521.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1378.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 29.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 102.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 514.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 70.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 831.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 20.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.2 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 13.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 19.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 24.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.58 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.54
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.1 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.4 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0