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Occurrence record: Ichthyology:I.23456-003

Preserved specimen of Heteroclinus perspicillatus (Valenciennes, 1836) | Common Weedfish recorded on 1975-10-05
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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 Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number I.23456-003
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:8070360,urn:catalog:AM:Ichthyology:I.23456-003"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Reader, Ms Sally Elizabeth - Australian Museum - Ichthyology  
Collector D. Hoese & Party
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment Hand net
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Hand net]
Date identified 1984

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:8058434
Occurrence date 1975-10-05
Supplied date "1975-10-05/1975-10-05"
Sampling protocol Hand net  
End day of year 278
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 278

Taxonomy

Scientific name Heteroclinus perspicillatus
Supplied scientific name "Heteroclinus perspicillatus (Valenciennes, 1836)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Common Weedfish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Clinidae
Genus Heteroclinus
Species Heteroclinus perspicillatus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Heteroclinus perspicillatus (Valenciennes, 1836)
Scientific name authorship (Valenciennes, 1836)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Valenciennes, 1836)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Latitude -38.383335
Supplied as: "-38.383335"
Longitude 145.21666
Supplied as: "145.21666"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Western Port Bay, Stoney Point, nr Jetty
Location remarks [I.23456] Australia, Victoria, Western Port Bay, Stoney Point, nr Jetty (38° 23' S, 145° 13' E) 05/10/1975 - 05/10/1975, D. Hoese & Party(Collector), Hand net
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38° 23' " S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 13' " E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Victorian Embayments
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bass Strait Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Ramsar Wetlands of Australia 2024 Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Victoria
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Victoria
    Electorates March 2025 Flinders
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Mornington P'sula - East
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Other forests and woodlands
    Vegetation types - present Other forests and woodlands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 27702.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2068.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 781.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 239.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 134.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 23.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 134.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 20.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 240.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.9 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.9 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.6 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.4 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.46 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.12
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 25.0 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 11.9 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 799.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 234.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 40.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 143.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 21.175644 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 143.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 82.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 239.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.183333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 16.7 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 6.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 10.233334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 7.2833333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 18.283333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 43.612774 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 323.17554
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 23.5 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 18.283333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 11.816667 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.71
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 0.0 m