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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.45118

Preserved specimen of Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Knife Finger Oyster recorded on 1918
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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.45118
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10444816","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.45118"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.45118
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Kerslake, J.  
Collector Burrows  
Supplied as "Burrows, Capt. W."
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1980
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 10/Nov/2005";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10022246
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 10/Nov/2005";
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1918, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1918"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Ensiculus cultellus
Supplied scientific name "Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Knife Finger Oyster
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Adapedonta
Family Pharidae
Genus Ensiculus
Species Ensiculus cultellus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Latitude -14.05
Supplied as: "-14.05"
Longitude 126.283
Supplied as: "126.283"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Vansittart Bay
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 20921 B] Australia, Western Australia, Vansittart Bay (14° 03' 00" S, 126° 17' 00" E) 1918 - 1918, Burrows, Captain W(Collector), Accession";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 14° 3' 0" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 126° 17' 0" E

Additional properties

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dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2015/9/2
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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