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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F156715

Preserved specimen of Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885) | Ovalbone Cuttlefish recorded on 1983-02-19
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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 Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F156715
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F156715
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Collector Northern Fisheries Research Centre, Qld
Sex Unknown
Individual count 15
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
Sampling protocol [trawl, demersal]

Event

Occurrence date 1983-02-19
Supplied date "1983-02-19T00:00:00\1983-02-19T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol trawl, demersal  
End day of year 50
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 50

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Sepiida | Sepiidae
Scientific name Acanthosepion ellipticum
Supplied scientific name "Sepia elliptica Hoyle, 1885"
Identified to rank species
Common name Ovalbone Cuttlefish
Supplied common name "Cuttlefish"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Acanthosepion
Supplied as "Sepia"
Species Acanthosepion ellipticum
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Hoyle, 1885)
Supplied as Hoyle, 1885
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Gulf of Carpentaria
Latitude -16.85
Supplied as: "-16.85"
Longitude 139.85
Supplied as: "139.85"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Gulf of Carpentaria
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Thuwathu/Bujimulla
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Thuwathu/Bujimulla
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Thuwathu/Bujimulla
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Thuwathu/Bujimulla
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Karumba-Nassau
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northern Shelf Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Karumba-Nassau
    Indigenous
    2025 Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) - Dedicated Thuwathu/Walalu
    Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) - Dedicated Thuwathu/Bujimulla
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Carpentaria Gulf Region
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Kennedy
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) TRAEGER

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 115.0 frequency
    Species Richness 81.0 frequency