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Occurrence record: Mammals:M30821

Preserved specimen of Melomys Thomas, 1922 recorded on 2009-04-05
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammals"
Catalog number M30821
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Mammals:M30821
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations formalin, whole; skull; tissues (loans)
Record number NP21
Identification qualifier Identified only to genus
Sex male
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation M30821
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [2003-2010 Papua New Guinea collections]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:62]

Event

Dataset / Survey name 2003-2010 Papua New Guinea collections  
Occurrence date 2009-04-05
Verbatim event date 5/04/2009
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Melomys
Supplied scientific name "Melomys sp. A"
Identified to rank genus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Rodentia
Family Muridae
Genus Melomys
Species Melomys sp. A
Name match metric higherMatch
Scientific name authorship Thomas, 1922
Name parse type INFORMAL

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
State or Territory East New Britain
Locality Nakanai Mountains, Lamas Camp
Latitude -5.6142
Supplied as: "-5.6142"
Longitude 151.4081
Supplied as: "151.4081"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Nakanai Mountains, Lamas Camp
Water body not applicable
Island New Britain
Island group Bismarck Archipelago
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 500.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code PG
Verbatim SRS WGS84

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

User flagged issues 

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 25.258333 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 78.0 %