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Occurrence record: Mammal:U6273

Preserved specimen of Dugong dugon (P.L.S. Müller, 1776) | Dugong recorded on 2000-08-22
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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 Mammal Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammal"
Catalog number U6273
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mammal:U6273
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations skull
Identified by G.M. Dally  
Identified date 2000
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
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2000

Event

Occurrence date 2000-08-22
Supplied as year:2000  month:8  day:22 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Dugong dugon
Identified to rank species
Common name Dugong
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Sirenia
Supplied as "Sirenia "
Family Dugongidae
Genus Dugong
Species Dugong dugon
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (P.L.S. Müller, 1776)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality Bundilla (Vesteys) Beach, Fannie Bay, Darwin Harbour
Latitude -12.43717
Supplied as: "-12.43717"
Longitude 130.83217
Supplied as: "130.83217"
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
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Anson Beagle
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Northern Territory
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated The Gardens
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DARWIN MUNICIPALITY
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) FANNIE BAY
    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
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1719.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 111.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 441.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 112.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1159.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 8.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.9 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.7 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 19.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.61 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.5
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 33.5 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.2 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.3 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0