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Occurrence record: Fishes:I38251

Preserved specimen of Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) | Blackspotted Whipray recorded on 2006-05-26
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Fishes
Supplied collection code "Fishes"
Catalog number I38251
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Fishes:I38251
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Life stage Female
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Trawl]

Event

Occurrence date 2006-05-26
Sampling protocol Trawl  
Verbatim event date 26 May 2006
End day of year 146
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 146

Taxonomy

Scientific name Maculabatis astra
Supplied scientific name "Himantura astra"
Identified to rank species
Common name Blackspotted Whipray
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Myliobatiformes
Family Dasyatidae
Genus Maculabatis
Supplied as "Himantura"
Species Maculabatis astra
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Rita Island, E of
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -19.6285
Supplied as: "-19.6285"
Longitude 147.619667
Supplied as: "147.619667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Minimum depth in metres 9.2
Maximum depth in metres 10.7
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 19° 37' 42.6" South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 147° 37' 10.8" East

Additional properties

object id 126249

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Burdekin
    NRM Regions 2017 Burdekin
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Burdekin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burdekin
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Juru People and Local Government ILUA
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Juru People and Ergon Energy ILUA
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 BURDEKIN SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BURDEKIN

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 137.0 frequency
    Species Richness 27.0 frequency