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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F53135

Preserved specimen of Octopus maorum Hutton, 1880 | Maori Octopus
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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 F53135
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F53135
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by T N. Stranks  
Identified date 1988
Collector Marine Study Group of Victoria  
Supplied as "Marine Study Group of Victoria"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
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
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Dataset / Survey name [Western Port Survey]
Date identified 1988

Event

Dataset / Survey name Western Port Survey  
Occurrence date Year: 1970, Month: 3, Day:
Supplied as year:1970  month:3 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Octopoda | Incirrata | Octopodidae
Scientific name Octopus maorum
Supplied scientific name "Octopus maorum Hutton, 1880"
Identified to rank species
Common name Maori Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Octopus
Species Octopus maorum
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Hutton, 1880
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Western Port (precise locality unknown)
Verbatim locality Western Port (precise locality unknown)
Terrestrial false
Continent OCEANIA
Marine false
Country Code AU

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