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Occurrence record: Birds:O3435

Preserved specimen of Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | Southern Cassowary
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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 Birds
Supplied collection code "Birds"
Catalog number O3435
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Birds:O3435
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Skin
Sex Adult
Life stage Uncertain
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Casuarius casuarius
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Cassowary
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Struthioniformes
Supplied as "Casuariiformes"
Family Casuariidae
Genus Casuarius
Species Casuarius casuarius
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Indonesia
Locality Merauke, Irian Jaya
Latitude -8.5
Supplied as: "-8.5"
Longitude 140.366667
Supplied as: "140.366667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 8° 30' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Asia
Marine false
Country Code ID
Verbatim longitude 140° 22' East

Additional properties

object id VE2965

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 26.879166 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 73.0 %