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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.322298

Preserved specimen of Arthritica semen (Menke, 1843) | Mound Springs Mussel recorded on 1977-05-15
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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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.322298
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10250050,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.322298"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Ponder, Dr Winston Frank - Australian Museum - Malacology  
Collector P. Hutchings
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment Sievings
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Sievings]
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Date identified 1997
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 20/Sep/2006

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10058830
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 20/Sep/2006
Occurrence date 1977-05-15
Supplied date "1977-05-15/1977-05-15"
Sampling protocol Sievings  
End day of year 135
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 135

Taxonomy

Scientific name Arthritica semen
Supplied scientific name "Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Mound Springs Mussel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Family Lasaeidae
Genus Arthritica
Species Arthritica semen
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
Scientific name authorship (Menke, 1843)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Hedley, 1915)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -32.823055
Supplied as: "-32.823055"
Longitude 151.78139
Supplied as: "151.78139"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Fullerton Cove, Hunter River, Newcastle
Location remarks [MAL# 27016 B] Australia, New South Wales, Fullerton Cove, Hunter River, Newcastle (32° 49' 23" S, 151° 46' 53" E) 15/05/1977 - 15/05/1977, Hutchings, P.(Collector), Sievings
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 32° 49' 23" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 151° 46' 53" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 02f58bc7-f30d-46bc-b024-1499c5b78a86
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Related records
    Record UUID 4978a377-43cd-4bfc-8d2e-68d1df961324
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID 29a5c0cc-7f55-467a-a3a3-2388b8907c3a
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID 75073dbd-1ef1-4db0-9f2f-ece6e4115033
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID c4dfa7ae-2fa6-4010-b102-a6bfad1e9150
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID 5985976d-b91f-4298-854f-1b8bcc78ecda
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID 200d87c3-2ca1-410a-a7d1-8f15abb1a89a
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID b58d60eb-28b9-4680-82e2-6ffef3932394
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID ac4d7f14-8002-4e23-8cf4-73096bfcba17
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID 5045e3b2-a1e0-4fd6-83cc-f20124db16b4
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139
    Record UUID 7cae09b0-6d6c-48c6-8d16-6cbfacc1b24c
    Data Resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Arthritica helmsi (Hedley, 1915)
    Coordinates -32.823055,151.78139

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Hunter Wetlands
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Hunter Wetlands
    CAPAD 2022 - Terrestrial (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Hunter Wetlands
    Directory of Important Wetlands Kooragang Nature Reserve
    GER Hunter Valley GER Hunter Valley
    GER National Corridor GER National Corridor
    Great Eastern Ranges Initiative GER Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
    Hunter Analysis Mask GER Hunter Analysis Mask
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) NSW North Coast
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) Karuah Manning
    NRM Regions 2010 Hunter-Central Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 Hunter
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Hunter
    RAMSAR wetland regions Hunter Estuary Wetlands
    Ramsar Wetlands of Australia 2024 Hunter Estuary Wetlands
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Hunter
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions NSW North Coast
    IBRA 7 Regions NSW North Coast
    IBRA 7 Subregions Karuah Manning
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 South East Coast (NSW)
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 HUNTER RIVER
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 New South Wales
    Marine
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories New South Wales
    Electorates March 2025 Paterson
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Port Stephens
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL
    NSW Local Land Services Regions Hunter
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) PATERSON
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
    PSMA States (2016) NEW SOUTH WALES
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Heathlands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Heathlands
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt open forests
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 128887.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2399.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1083.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 218.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 11.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 173.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 31.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 312.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 32.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 365.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 16.9 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 33.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.4 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 18.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 14.2 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.35
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 28.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 23.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 20.8 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 1109.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 241.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 55.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 178.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 27.597212 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 301.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 132.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 355.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 17.858334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 20.400002 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 6.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 12.616667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 9.883333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 13.466667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 48.447712 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 401.23578
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 27.2 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 22.566668 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 22.35 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.74
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99
    Elevation 10.0 m