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Occurrence record: Ornithology:HLW481

Preserved specimen of Porphyrio (Porphyrio) porphyrio melanotus Temminck, 1820 | Australasian Purple Swamphen recorded on 1904-06-03
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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 Ornithology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ornithology"
Catalog number HLW481
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ornithology:PreservedSpecimen:HLW481
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skin|Dry
Collector Grant, Robert  
Supplied as "Robert Grant"
Sex Male
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
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Occurrence date 1904-06-03
Supplied date "1904-06-03T00:00:00\1904-06-03T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Aves | Gruiformes | Rallidae
Scientific name Porphyrio (Porphyrio) porphyrio melanotus
Supplied scientific name "Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus"
Identified to rank subspecies
Common name Australasian Purple Swamphen
Supplied common name "Purple Swamphen"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Gruiformes
Family Rallidae
Genus Porphyrio
Species Porphyrio porphyrio
Name match metric exactMatch
Infraspecific epithet melanotus
Subspecies Porphyrio (Porphyrio) porphyrio melanotus
Scientific name authorship Temminck, 1820
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | New South Wales
Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Locality Hawkesbury R
Latitude -33.55
Supplied as: "-33.55"
Longitude 151.33
Supplied as: "151.33"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Hawkesbury R
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol Approximation
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Hunter Analysis Mask GER Hunter Analysis Mask
    NRM Regions 2010 Hunter-Central Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 Greater Sydney
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Greater Sydney
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Hawkesbury Shelf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CENTRAL COAST COUNCIL
    NSW Local Land Services Regions Greater Sydney
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) ROBERTSON
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
    PSMA States (2016) NEW SOUTH WALES