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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.125820

Preserved specimen of Sepia whitleyana (Iredale, 1926) | Whitley's Cuttlefish recorded on 1960/1960
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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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.125820
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10468890,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.125820"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Miller, Ms Alison Clair - Australian Museum - Malacology  
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2025-01-16
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Mar/2007

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10008893
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Mar/2007
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1960, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1960/1960"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sepia whitleyana
Supplied scientific name "Acanthosepion whitleyanum Iredale, 1926"
Identified to rank species
Common name Whitley's Cuttlefish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Sepia
Supplied as "Acanthosepion"
Species Sepia whitleyana
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Acanthosepion whitleyanum Iredale, 1926
Scientific name authorship (Iredale, 1926)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Iredale, 1926

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -16.666666
Supplied as: "-16.666666"
Longitude 145.75
Supplied as: "145.75"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Trinity Bay, Cairns
Location remarks [MAL# 67605 B] Australia, Queensland, Trinity Bay, Cairns (16° 40' 00" S, 145° 45' 00" E) 1960 - 1960, Accession
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 16° 40' 00" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 45' 00" E

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verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Wet Tropic Coast
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Wet Tropic Coast
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Leichhardt
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DOUGLAS SHIRE
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    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 351.0 frequency
    Species Richness 275.0 frequency