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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:A1642

Preserved specimen of Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 | Sperm Whale
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number A1642
Occurrence ID urn:catalog:TMAG:Mammalogy:A1642
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Evans, Karen  
Supplied as "Karen Evans"
Sex Female
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1998, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1998 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Physeter macrocephalus
Identified to rank species
Common name Sperm Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Physeteridae
Genus Physeter
Species Physeter macrocephalus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Linnaeus, 1758
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Ocean Beach, Strahan
Latitude -42.1586307
Supplied as: "-42.16"
Longitude 145.3210587
Supplied as: "145.32"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Franklin
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 WEST COAST COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BRADDON
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Inland aquatic - freshwater, salt lakes, lagoons
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Freshwater, dams, lakes, lagoons or aquatic plants
    Vegetation types - native unknown/no data
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1752.75 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 572.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 19.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 297.125 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 25.125 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 297.875 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 49.625 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 573.375 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 11.4875 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 54.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 18.15 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.0625 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 15.8625 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.0625 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.9375 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.1625 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 15.275 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51374996 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.87
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.2875 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 8.9875 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 52.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.9875
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 42.0 m