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Occurrence record: Coelenterate:C009565

Preserved specimen of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758) recorded on 2010-01-29
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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 Coelenterate Collection
Supplied collection code "Coelenterate"
Catalog number C009565
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Coelenterate:C009565
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by R.C. Willan  
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 2010

Event

Occurrence date 2010-01-29
Supplied as year:2010  month:1  day:29 
End day of year 29
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 29

Taxonomy

Scientific name Physalia physalis
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Hydrozoa
Order Siphonophorae
Family Physaliidae
Genus Physalia
Species Physalia physalis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality Central section of Casuarina Beach, Darwin
Latitude -12.355
Supplied as: "-12.355"
Longitude 130.86833
Supplied as: "130.86833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Data quality tests

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    Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Unrecognized geodetic datum Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Casuarina
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Casuarina
    CAPAD 2022 - Terrestrial (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Casuarina
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Anson Beagle
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northwest Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 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
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DARWIN MUNICIPALITY
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Larrakia (Part A - consolidated proceeding)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) CASUARINA
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Other special rights, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Medium Closed
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Tropical eucalypt woodlands/grasslands
    Vegetation types - present Tropical eucalypt woodlands/grasslands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 113197.0 frequency
    Species Richness 3259.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1735.8 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 110.8 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 444.2 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 113.6 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1169.4 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) 27.56 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.96 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 18.72 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.16 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.04 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.2 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.6 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.52
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 33.64 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.16 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.26 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 62.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0