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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.125429

Preserved specimen of Sepia mestus Gray, 1849 | Reaper Cuttlefish recorded on 1926-05
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.125429
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10468687","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.125429"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.125429
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Reid, A.  
Collector 1.  Iredale, T.   2.  Whitley, G.P.  
Supplied as "T.Iredale & G.P.Whitley"
Associated Occurrence Status Representative record
Associated occurrences This record has 1 inferred associated occurrences
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Associated records REPRESENTATIVE
Date identified 2007-02
Supplied as 2007-2
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Expert"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 08/Mar/2007";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10031745
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Expert"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 08/Mar/2007";
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1926, Month: 5, Day:
Supplied date "1926-05"
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sepia mestus
Supplied scientific name "Sepia mestus Gray, 1849"
Identified to rank species
Common name Reaper Cuttlefish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Sepia
Species Sepia mestus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Sepia mestus Gray, 1849
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1849
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Gray, 1849

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -16.6
Supplied as: "-16.6"
Longitude 145.983
Supplied as: "145.983"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality GBR, Michaelmas Cay
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 594 C] Australia, Queensland, GBR, Michaelmas Cay (16° 36' 00" S, 145° 59' 00" E) /05/1926 - /06/1926, Iredale, Mr Tom - Australian Museum(Collector), Whitley, G P(Collector), Field Collected - Aquatic, Great Barrier Reef Boring Expedition";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 16° 36' 0" S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 59' 0" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2020/7/30
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2020/7/30
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record has been identified as the representative occurrence in a group of associated occurrences. This mean other records have been detected that seem to relate to this record and this particular record has the most detailed information on the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 5b0da5d1-674f-4ee3-8fd6-d88c0f30ff23
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Sepia mestus Gray, 1849
    Coordinates -16.6,145.983
    Related records
    Record UUID 73e16b32-4f13-4958-adb4-ed9c13c9135b
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Sepia mestus Gray, 1849
    Coordinates -16.6,145.983

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    NRM Regions 2010 Wet Tropics
    NRM Regions 2017 Wet Tropics
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Wet Tropics
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Reef
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DOUGLAS SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK