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Occurrence record: Crustacea:W29593

Preserved specimen of Thunnus orientalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) | Northern Bluefin Tuna recorded on 1995-02-23
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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 W29593
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Crustacea:W29593
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Trawl]

Event

Occurrence date 1995-02-23
Sampling protocol Trawl  
Verbatim event date 23 Feb 1995
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Thunnus orientalis
Supplied scientific name "Thenus orientalis"
Identified to rank species
Common name Northern Bluefin Tuna
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Supplied as "Arthropoda"
Class Actinopterygii
Supplied as "Malacostraca"
Order Perciformes
Supplied as "Decapoda"
Family Scombridae
Supplied as "Scyllaridae"
Genus Thunnus
Supplied as "Thenus"
Species Thunnus orientalis
Name match metric fuzzyMatch
Scientific name authorship (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844)
Supplied as (Lund, 1793)
Subfamily Theninae
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Gulf of Carpentaria, NWQ
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -12.583333
Supplied as: "-12.583333"
Longitude 141.466667
Supplied as: "141.466667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 500.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 12° 35' South
Biome MARINE
Continent Oceania
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 141° 28' East

Additional properties

object id 452870

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    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions West Cape York
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 COOK SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK