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Occurrence record: Crustacea:W7231

Preserved specimen of Portunus armatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861) | Blue Swimmer Crab recorded on 1972-11-06
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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 Crustaceans
Supplied collection code "Crustacea"
Catalog number W7231
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Crustacea:W7231
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Identified by D Potter  
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Previous identifications Portunus pelagicus
Date identified 2015-02-04
Supplied as 04 Feb 2015

Event

Occurrence date 1972-11-06
Verbatim event date 06 Nov 1972
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Portunus armatus
Identified to rank species
Common name Blue Swimmer Crab
Supplied common name "Australian Blue Swimmer Crab"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Portunidae
Genus Portunus
Species Portunus armatus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (A. Milne-Edwards, 1861)
Supplied as (A. Milne Edwards, 1861)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality 70 - Deception Bay, Moreton Bay
Latitude -27.166667
Supplied as: "-27.166667"
Longitude 153.083333
Supplied as: "153.083333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 27° 10' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 5' East

Additional properties

object id CR4691

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Moreton Bay
    Directory of Important Wetlands Moreton Bay
    NRM Regions 2010 South East Queensland
    NRM Regions 2017 South East Queensland
    RAMSAR wetland regions Moreton Bay
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South East Queensland
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) REDCLIFFE
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Sea, estuaries (includes seagrass)