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Occurrence record: Ornithology:O.86063

Preserved specimen of Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789) | Common Diving-petrel recorded on 1987/1988
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Ornithology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ornithology"
Catalog number O.86063
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:3197380,urn:catalog:AM:Ornithology:O.86063"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Erickson, Ms Ricky-Lee - Australian Museum - Ornithology  
Collector E. Woehler
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment unknown
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [unknown]
Date identified 2025-09-16
Identification remarks DNA identification done for O.86060, presumed same for all birds from the same lot.

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1384953
Identification remarks DNA identification done for O.86060, presumed same for all birds from the same lot.
Occurrence date [date not supplied]
Supplied date "1987/1988"
Sampling protocol unknown  
Date precision YEAR_RANGE

Taxonomy

Scientific name Pelecanoides urinatrix
Supplied scientific name "Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Common Diving-petrel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Procellariiformes
Family Procellariidae
Genus Pelecanoides
Species Pelecanoides urinatrix
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Pelecanoides urinatrix (Gmelin, 1789)
Scientific name authorship (Gmelin, 1789)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Gmelin, 1789)

Geospatial

Country Australia
Latitude -51.81333
Supplied as: "-51.81333"
Longitude 75.38333
Supplied as: "75.38333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Heard Island
Water body Southern Ocean
Location remarks Southern Ocean, Heard Island (51° 48' 48" S, 75° 23' E) 1987 - 1988, Woehler, Eric(Collector), unknown, Accession
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 51° 48' 48" S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 075° 23' " E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 10km-100km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Marine
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 44.0 frequency
    Species Richness 16.0 frequency