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Occurrence record: Reptiles:R01643

Preserved specimen of Simalia Gray, 1849 | Amethyst Python recorded on 1974-01-01
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Reptiles"
Catalog number R01643
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Reptiles:R01643
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations body in spirit
Sex not recorded
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation R01643
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1974-01-01
Supplied date "1974-01-01/1974-12-31"
Verbatim event date 1974
Date precision DAY_RANGE
Event date end 1974-12-31

Taxonomy

Scientific name Simalia
Supplied scientific name "Simalia amethistina"
Identified to rank genus
Common name Amethyst Python
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Family Pythonidae
Supplied as "Boidae"
Genus Simalia
Species Simalia amethistina
Name match metric higherMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1849
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Mission beach
Latitude -17.9167
Supplied as: "-17.9167"
Longitude 146.0833
Supplied as: "146.0833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality MISSION BEACH
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.08333
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    First of the month Warning
    First of the year Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Taxon match higher rank Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Girringun
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Girringun
    NRM Regions 2010 Wet Tropics
    NRM Regions 2017 Wet Tropics
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Wet Tropics
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Subregions Innisfail
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 TULLY-MURRAY RIVERS
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Djiru Cassowary Coast Regional Council Area ILUA
    Indigenous Protected Areas 2013 Girringun
    Local Government Areas 2011 Cassowary Coast (R)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Cardwell
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CASSOWARY COAST REGIONAL
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Djiru People #3
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 74
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 768
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) TULLY
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) INNISFAIL - CASSOWARY COAST
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) CAIRNS
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) KENNEDY
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) TULLY - CARDWELL - JUMBUN
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) CARDWELL
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) TOWNSVILLE - MACKAY
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) HILL
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous co-managed, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Rainforest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Rainforest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Rainforests and Vine Thickets
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Tropical or sub-tropical rainforest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Rainforests and vine thickets
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 3048.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 300.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 11.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 213.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 75.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 1318.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 158.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1590.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 19.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 23.7 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 19.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 22.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.93
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.3 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 26.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 26.3 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.883333 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.9
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 16.0 m