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Occurrence record: MO:S113410

Preserved specimen of Decorisepia hedleyi (Berry, 1918) | Hedley's Cuttlefish
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection
Supplied collection code "MO"
Catalog number S113410
Other catalog numbers ["782-81"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:113410
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations 70% Ethanol
Identified by Bryce, C.W.  
Collector CSIRO
Individual count 2
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID `Courageous`
Occurrence date Year: 1978, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1978 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Decorisepia hedleyi
Identified to rank species
Common name Hedley's Cuttlefish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Decorisepia
Supplied as "Sepia"
Species Decorisepia hedleyi
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Berry, 1918)
Supplied as S. S. Berry, 1918
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
Habitat Marine
Latitude -19.9666
Supplied as: "-19.9666"
Longitude 115.2167
Supplied as: "115.2167"
Datum EPSG:4326
Min elevation -180
Max elevation -150
Island Monte Bello Islands
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to LABEL
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 19°58`S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 115°13`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Ningaloo Reef & NW Western Australia
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northwest Shelf
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northwest Shelf Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Northwest Shelf
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Pilbara
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 83.0 frequency
    Species Richness 62.0 frequency