Search Specimens

OZCAM (Online Zoo-log-i-cal Col-lec-tions of Aus-tralian Muse-ums) pro-vides access to an online data-base of records aggre-gated from fau-nal col-lec-tions data-bases in Aus-tralian museums.

Occurrence record: Fishes:I2567

Preserved specimen of Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | Blacktip Reef Shark
   API

Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Fishes
Supplied collection code "Fishes"
Catalog number I2567
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Fishes:I2567
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Carcharhinus melanopterus
Identified to rank species
Common name Blacktip Reef Shark
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Carcharhiniformes
Supplied as "Lamniformes"
Family Carcharhinidae
Genus Carcharhinus
Species Carcharhinus melanopterus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Piper Island
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -12.216667
Supplied as: "-12.216667"
Longitude 143.216667
Supplied as: "143.216667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 12° 13' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 143° 13' East

Additional properties

object id FI2567

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Show/Hide 77 passed properties
    Show/Hide 7 missing properties
    Show/Hide 28 tests that have not been run

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    NRM Regions 2010 Cape York
    NRM Regions 2017 Cape York
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Cape York
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions East Cape York
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Kuuku Ya'u People Marine Park ILUA
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 COOK SHIRE
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Kuuku Ya'u
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK