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Occurrence record: GeneticSamples:G44446

Material Sample of Simalia Gray, 1849 | Amethyst Python recorded on 2015-04-06
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "GeneticSamples"
Catalog number G44446
Record type Material Sample
Supplied basis "MaterialSample"
Sex unknown
License CC-BY
Associated occurrences ANWC:Reptiles:R10895
Rights holder CSIRO
Field Number ENR1107
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Relationship of resource sample of
Bibliographic citation G44446
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [2015 Papua New Guinea Rittmeyer herpetology]
Disposition in collection
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:165]

Event

Dataset / Survey name 2015 Papua New Guinea Rittmeyer herpetology  
Field Number ENR1107
Occurrence date 2015-04-06
Verbatim event date 6/04/2015
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Simalia
Supplied scientific name "Simalia amethistina"
Identified to rank genus
Common name Amethyst Python
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Family Pythonidae
Supplied as "Boidae"
Genus Simalia
Species Simalia amethistina
Name match metric higherMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1849
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
State or Territory Western
Locality Morehead
Latitude -8.71219
Supplied as: "-8.71219"
Longitude 141.64673
Supplied as: "141.64673"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Morehead
Water body not applicable
Island New Guinea
Island group not applicable
Coordinate precision 1E-05
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 5.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Elevation 32
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code PG
Verbatim SRS WGS84

Additional properties

loan conditions approval from ANWC Director
material sample type tissue
permit status permit available
permit status qualifier collecting permit implicit in export permit
permit type collecting permit
preparation date not recorded
preparation materials none
preparation type liver
prepared by Rittmeyer, E.N.
preservation temperature -80 degrees Celsius
preservation type tube ethanol
verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

User flagged issues 

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    Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Coordinates dont match supplied state Warning
    Taxon match higher rank Warning
    Coordinate precision and uncertainty transposed Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 26.920834 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 72.0 %