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Occurrence record: Reptiles:R01277

Preserved specimen of Tiliqua occipitalis (Peters, 1863) | Western Blue-tongue recorded on 1967-10-21
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Reptiles"
Catalog number R01277
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Reptiles:R01277
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skeleton; skin
Record number WA 48
Sex female
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation R01277
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1967-10-21
Verbatim event date 21OCT1967
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tiliqua occipitalis
Identified to rank species
Common name Western Blue-tongue
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Family Scincidae
Genus Tiliqua
Species Tiliqua occipitalis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Peters, 1863)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Locality CALLAGIDDY STATION, SE OF CARNARVON
Latitude -25.0333
Supplied as: "-25.0333"
Longitude 114.0333
Supplied as: "114.0333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality CALLAGIDDY STATION, SE OF CARNARVON
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Carnarvon
    IBRA 7 Regions Carnarvon
    IBRA 7 Subregions Wooramel
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Pilbara-Gascoyne
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 GASCOYNE RIVER
    Land Management
    Western Australian Biodiversity Science Research Priority Regions Gascoyne/Murchison
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Western Australia
    Australian States and Territories Western Australia
    Local Government Areas 2011 Carnarvon (S)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Carnarvon
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF CARNARVON
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 10
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 239
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF WA
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) EXMOUTH
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) GASCOYNE
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) WESTERN AUSTRALIA - OUTBACK (SOUTH)
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) DURACK
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) SHARK BAY - CORAL BAY - UPPER GASCOYNE
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) SHARK BAY - CORAL BAY - UPPER GASCOYNE
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) GERALDTON
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Very Remote Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MINING AND PASTORAL REGION
    PSMA States (2016) WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Acacia Shrublands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Other Acacia tall open shrublands and shrublands
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Leasehold
    Vegetation types - native Acacia shrublands
    Vegetation types - present Acacia shrublands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 211.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 98.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 10.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 76.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 49.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 11.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 108.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 22.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 29.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 27.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 23.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 26.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 17.3 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 13.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 23.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.49 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.55
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 36.4 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 28.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 18.1 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.8375 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 46.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.11
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.3
    Elevation 29.0 m