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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F178286

Preserved specimen of Notocypraea piperita (Gray, 1824) | Peppered Cowry recorded on 1968-04-18
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F178286
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F178286
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Shell|dry
Identified by Lynton Stephens - Museum Victoria  
Collector R C. Robertson
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Date identified 2011-08-01
Supplied as 01/08/2011

Event

Occurrence date 1968-04-18
Supplied date "1968-04-18T00:00:00\1968-04-18T00:00:00"
End day of year 109
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 109

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Conchifera | Visceroconcha | Gastropoda | Orthogastropoda | Caenogastropoda | Sorbeoconcha | Hypsogastropoda | Littorinimorpha | Cypraeoidea | Cypraeidae | Cypraeovulinae
Scientific name Notocypraea piperita
Supplied scientific name "Notocypraea piperita (Gray, 1825)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Peppered Cowry
Supplied common name "Marine Snail"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Supplied as "Sorbeoconcha"
Family Cypraeidae
Genus Notocypraea
Species Notocypraea piperita
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1824)
Supplied as (Gray, 1825)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Reef off Somers
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 145.17
Supplied as: "145.17"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Reef off Somers
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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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 232e686a-46f2-4de4-a7c4-37c7e9613a17
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Notocypraea piperita (Gray, 1825)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.17
    Related records
    Record UUID 7a97b033-14fc-4623-b83e-a18588a9ef68
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Notocypraea piperita (Gray, 1825)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.17
    Record UUID 79543d41-5adf-487b-8c74-703a6ec71fc6
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Notocypraea piperita (Gray, 1825)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.17

    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
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 51049.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1599.0 frequency
    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 810.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 240.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 40.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 143.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 21.79138 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 143.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 83.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 243.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.120833 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 17.5 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 6.5 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 10.033334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 7.725 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 18.4 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 44.142857 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 335.0879
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 24.0 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 18.4 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 11.7 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Elevation 23.0 m