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Occurrence record: Fish:S.14432-003

Preserved specimen of Ambassis vachellii Richardson, 1846 | Vachell's Glassfish recorded on 1997-05-26
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Fish"
Catalog number S.14432-003
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Fish:S.14432_003
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by R.S. Williams  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1997

Event

Occurrence date 1997-05-26
Supplied as year:1997  month:5  day:26 
End day of year 146
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 146

Taxonomy

Scientific name Ambassis vachellii
Identified to rank species
Common name Vachell's Glassfish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Ambassidae
Genus Ambassis
Species Ambassis vachellii
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Richardson, 1846
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality Reef at Middle Beach, West Alligator Head
Latitude -12.169
Supplied as: "-12.169"
Longitude 132.237
Supplied as: "132.237"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Van Diemens Gulf
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northern Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Van Diemens Gulf
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous managed, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Medium Closed
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1479.0 frequency
    Species Richness 596.0 frequency
    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 1543.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 3.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 0.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 3.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 110.07172 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 389.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 358.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 1017.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 27.154167 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 14.700001 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 18.7 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 24.433334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 8.008334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 24.433334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 54.47846 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 180.20769
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 33.4 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 28.933334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 28.0 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 60.0 %