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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:CS2595

Human observation of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale recorded on 2000-12-17
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number CS2595
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:573894"]
Record type Human observation
Supplied basis "HumanObservation"
Individual count 5
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Occurrence remarks 600m from shore. 100m from observer. How observed: from fishing boat Social group: grouped Images at South Australian Museum: no

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:208944
Occurrence date 2000-12-17
Verbatim event date Time: >1800
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Orcinus orca
Supplied scientific name "Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -35.62
Supplied as: "-35.62"
Longitude 137.18
Supplied as: "137.18"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Stokes Bay
Coordinate precision 0.01
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 35 37 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 137 11 E

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    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Keppel Islands & Capricorn Bunker Reefs, Souther GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    NRM Regions 2010 Kangaroo Island
    NRM Regions 2017 Kangaroo Island
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Kangaroo Island
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Mackay-Capricorn
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Other Crown Land