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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P063764

Preserved specimen of Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) | Purple Mouthed Cowry
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P063764
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P063764
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by P. Town  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1976

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1976, Month: 7, Day:
Supplied as year:1976  month:7 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Lyncina carneola
Identified to rank species
Common name Purple Mouthed Cowry
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Family Cypraeidae
Genus Lyncina
Species Lyncina carneola
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Vanuatu
Locality Port Vila, SW. coast of Efat Island, Vanuatu (= New Hebrides Islands), southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Latitude -17.43333
Supplied as: "-17.43333"
Longitude 168.18333
Supplied as: "168.18333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code VU

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    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 23.0 frequency
    Species Richness 20.0 frequency