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Occurrence record: CRUST:C18120

Preserved specimen of Paguristes frontalis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836) | Common Hermit Crab recorded on 1985-11-28
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Supplied collection code "CRUST"
Catalog number C18120
Other catalog numbers ["212-88"]
Occurrence ID 0717:0010204-000C00181200000
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by McLaughlin, P.A.  
Collector Morgan, G.J.  
Supplied as "Morgan, G.J."
Sex 8M, 6F
Individual count 15
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2005-01-01

Event

Occurrence date 1985-11-28
Supplied as year:1985  month:11  day:28 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Paguristes frontalis
Identified to rank species
Common name Common Hermit Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Diogenidae
Genus Paguristes
Species Paguristes frontalis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -33.938
Supplied as: "-33.9380"
Longitude 120.1667
Supplied as: "120.1667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 33°56`17"S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 120°10`00"E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Recherche Archipelago
    NRM Regions 2010 South Coast
    NRM Regions 2017 South Coast Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South Coast Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions WA South Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF RAVENSTHORPE
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 497.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 183.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 4.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 70.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 42.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 75.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 193.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 38.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.0 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 19.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 13.3 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 11.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.3 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.59 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.01
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.6 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 20.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 13.9 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.38
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.76
    Elevation 7.0 m