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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.434719

Preserved specimen of Pteria Scopoli, 1777 | Wing Pearl Oysters recorded on 1947-08/1947-09
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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.434719
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10418688,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.434719"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Loch, Mr I W  
Collector Rossow
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2004-05-02
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 02/May/2004

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10030396
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 02/May/2004
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1947, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1947-08/1947-09"
Date precision MONTH_RANGE

Taxonomy

Scientific name Pteria
Supplied scientific name "Pteria falcata (Lamarck, 1819)"
Identified to rank genus
Common name Wing Pearl Oysters
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Ostreida
Family Pteriidae
Genus Pteria
Species Pteria falcata
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Pteria falcata (Lamarck, 1819)
Scientific name authorship Scopoli, 1777
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Lamarck, 1819)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -9.933333
Supplied as: "-9.933333"
Longitude 144.06667
Supplied as: "144.06667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Torres Strait, Murray Is
Location remarks [MAL# 47402 B] Australia, Queensland, Torres Strait, Murray Is (9° 56' 00" S, 144° 04' 00" E) /08/1947 - /09/1947, Rossow, Major(Collector), Accession
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 09° 56' 00" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 144° 04' 00" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Cape Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Torres Strait
    NRM Regions 2017 Torres Strait
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Torres Strait
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Torres Strait
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Cape Province
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Torres Strait
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Leichhardt
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TORRES SHIRE
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 7281.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2535.0 frequency