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Occurrence record: CRUST:C18118

Preserved specimen of Paguristes frontalis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836) | Common Hermit Crab recorded on 1986-04-18
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Supplied collection code "CRUST"
Catalog number C18118
Other catalog numbers ["210-88"]
Occurrence ID 0717:0010204-000C00181180000
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by McLaughlin, P.A.  
Collector Morgan, G.J.  
Supplied as "Morgan, G.J."
Sex M, F
Individual count 2
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2005-01-01

Event

Occurrence date 1986-04-18
Supplied as year:1986  month:4  day:18 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Paguristes frontalis
Identified to rank species
Common name Common Hermit Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Diogenidae
Genus Paguristes
Species Paguristes frontalis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -34.95
Supplied as: "-34.9500"
Longitude 118.1833
Supplied as: "118.1833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 34°57`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 118°11`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Wet Tropic Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CENTRAL DESERT REGION

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Topography
    Elevation 425.0 m