Occurrence record: Mammalogy:M.50187.003

Preserved specimen of Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) | Pygmy Sperm Whale

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Dataset

Data partner	OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource	Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code	Australian Museum Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection	Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number	M.50187.003
Other catalog numbers	["ecatalogue.irn:2409844,urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.50187.003"]
Record type	Preserved specimen Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
License	CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment	Stranded
Presence/Absence	PRESENT
Sampling protocol	[Stranded]

Event

Sampling protocol	Stranded
Date precision	NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name	Kogia breviceps Supplied scientific name "Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)"
Identified to rank	species
Common name	Pygmy Sperm Whale
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Kogiidae
Genus	Kogia
Species	Kogia breviceps
Name match metric	canonicalMatch
Accepted name	Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)
Scientific name authorship	(Blainville, 1838)
Name parse type	SCIENTIFIC
Name according to	(de Blainville, 1838)

Geospatial

Country	Australia
State or Territory	New South Wales
Latitude	-32.30361 Supplied as: "-32.30361"
Longitude	152.52194 Supplied as: "152.52194"
Datum	EPSG:4326
Verbatim coordinate system	unknown
Location remarks	Australia, New South Wales, Great Lakes, on a beach in Booti Booti National Park, near the campground (32° 18' 13" S, 152° 31' 19" E) 15/10/2015 - 15/10/2015, Taronga Zoo(Presenter), Stranded, Accession
Coordinate precision	Unknown
Terrestrial	true
Verbatim latitude	32° 18' 13" S
Biome	TERRESTRIAL
Marine	false
Country Code	AU
Verbatim longitude	152° 31' 19" E

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Ambiguous collection	Passed
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TAXON_CONCEPT_ID_NOT_FOUND	Passed
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Taxon default match	Passed
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Taxon homonym	Passed
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Taxon match higher rank	Passed
TAXON_MATCH_NAME_AND_ID_AMBIGUOUS	Passed
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TAXON_MATCH_TAXON_CONCEPT_ID_IGNORED	Passed
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Biosecurity issue	Passed
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Habitat incorrect for species	Passed
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Taxonomic issue	Passed
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Missing georeferenced by	Missing
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Missing georeference verification status	Missing
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Missing taxon rank	Missing
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Georeferenced after occurrence date	Unchecked (lack of data)
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First of the century	Unchecked (lack of data)
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Footprint WKT mismatch	Unchecked (lack of data)
Footprint WKT invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Recorded date mismatch	Unchecked (lack of data)
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TAXON_MATCH_SCIENTIFIC_NAME_ID_IGNORED	Unchecked (lack of data)
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Individual count conflicts with occurrence status	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced date unlikely	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced date invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)

Additional political boundaries information

Area Management
CAPAD 2016 Marine	Port Stephens - Great Lakes
CAPAD 2018 Marine	Port Stephens - Great Lakes
CAPAD 2020 Marine	Port Stephens - Great Lakes
CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database)	Port Stephens - Great Lakes
Hunter Analysis Mask	GER Hunter Analysis Mask
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions)	NSW North Coast
IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon)	Karuah Manning
NRM Regions 2010	Hunter-Central Rivers
NRM Regions 2017	Hunter
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023	Hunter
Area management
National Landcare Program Management Units 2018	Hunter
Biodiversity
IBRA 6 Regions	NSW North Coast
IBRA 7 Regions	NSW North Coast
IBRA 7 Subregions	Karuah Manning
Hydrology
Australian Drainage Divisions 2021	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 1	South East Coast (NSW)
Drainage Divisions Level 2	KARUAH RIVER
Indigenous
Indigenous Areas 2021	Great Lakes
Indigenous Locations 2021	Bulahdelah
Indigenous Regions 2021	NSW Central and North Coast
RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024	New South Wales
Marine
States including coastal waters	New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
Political
ASGS Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Australian States and Territories	New South Wales
Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021	Lyne
Electorates March 2025	Lyne
Local Government Areas 2011	Great Lakes (A)
Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated	Great Lakes
Local Government Areas PSMA 2018	MID-COAST COUNCIL
NSW Local Land Services Regions	Hunter
PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016)	20
PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016)	1861
PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016)	REST OF NSW
PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016)	FORSTER-TUNCURRY REGION
PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016)	GREAT LAKES
PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016)	MID NORTH COAST
PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018)	LYNE
PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016)	GREAT LAKES
PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016)	BULAHDELAH
PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016)	NSW CENTRAL AND NORTH COAST
PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016)	Inner Regional Australia
PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018)	LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PSMA States (2016)	NEW SOUTH WALES
State Electoral Divisions 2022	Myall Lakes
World Country Boundaries	Australia
Social
Australia 2021	Australia
Destination Zones 2021	Forster-Tuncurry Surrounds
Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021	Rest of NSW
Local Government Areas 2023	Mid-Coast
Postal Areas 2021	2428
Remoteness Areas 2021	Inner Regional Australia
States and Territories 2021	New South Wales
Statistical Areas Level 1	10801115314
Statistical Areas Level 2	Forster-Tuncurry Surrounds
Statistical Areas Level 3	Great Lakes
Statistical Areas Level 4	Mid North Coast
Tourism Regions 2021	North Coast NSW
Vegetation
Forests of Australia 2018B	Non forest
NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups	Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
Vegetation types - native	unknown/no data
Vegetation types - present	cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

Environmental sampling for this location

Biodiversity
Occurrence Density	16573.0 frequency
Species Richness	1691.0 frequency
Climate
Precipitation - annual (Bio12)	1277.1666 mm
Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19)	275.5 mm
Precipitation - driest period (Bio14)	14.5 mm
Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17)	219.0 mm
Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15)	28.5 mm
Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18)	334.5 mm
Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13)	39.166668 mm
Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16)	434.33334 mm
Radiation - annual mean (Bio20)	16.75 MJ/m2/day
Radiation - seasonality (Bio23)	33.0
Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26)	22.116667 MJ/m2/day
Temperature - annual mean (Bio01)	18.066668 degrees C
Temperature - annual range (Bio07)	18.983334 degrees C
Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06)	7.8166666 degrees C
Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11)	13.4 degrees C
Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02)	9.1 degrees C
Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09)	15.766666 degrees C
Temperature - isothermality (Bio03)	0.47833332 %
Temperature - seasonality (Bio04)	1.2
Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05)	26.783333 degrees C
Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10)	22.35 degrees C
Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08)	19.1 degrees C
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual	1219.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter	277.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month	64.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter	212.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality	27.592222 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter	377.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month	158.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter	403.0 mm
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean	18.3625 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range	16.5 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min	9.6 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean	14.116667 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean	7.6416664 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean	14.5 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality	46.31313 %
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality	330.53073
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max	26.1 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean	22.2 °C
WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean	19.45 °C
WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality	49.0 %
Substrate
Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28)	0.82666665
Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32)	1.0
Elevation	0.0 m

Group	Field Name	Original Value	Processed Value


Classification	Scientific name	Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)	Kogia breviceps
	Match type		canonicalMatch
	Phylum id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/065f1da4-53cd-40b8-a396-80fa5c74dedd
	Family id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/e903c7c0-a5f3-4290-bbf9-2e5015bec65e
	Taxon concept ID		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/465659ca-6d28-48a3-910d-ea8f5c58da72
	Order	Cetacea	Cetacea
	Taxon rank id		7000
	Accepted name usage	Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)
	Species id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/465659ca-6d28-48a3-910d-ea8f5c58da72
	Taxon identification issue	[MISSING_COLLECTION_DATE]
	Genus	Kogia	Kogia
	Left		52940
	Scientific name authorship		(Blainville, 1838)
	Taxon rank		species
	Genus id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/1a27e589-f009-45a6-9c44-8240da56de65
	Name type		SCIENTIFIC
	Vernacular name	Pygmy Sperm Whale	Pygmy Sperm Whale
	Name according to	(de Blainville, 1838)
	Order id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/2304bbc8-679f-4c68-9861-88b7c579ff3d
	Right		52940
	Kingdom	Animalia	Animalia
	Specific epithet	breviceps
	Class id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/e9e7db31-04df-41fb-bd8d-e0b0f3c332d6
	Phylum	Chordata	Chordata
	Class	Mammalia	Mammalia
	Species		Kogia breviceps
	Family		Kogiidae
	Kingdom id		https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/4647863b-760d-4b59-aaa1-502c8cdf8d3c
Event	Date precision		NOT_SUPPLIED
Occurrence	Degree of establishment	Stranded
	Catalog number	M.50187.003
	Occurrence status		PRESENT
	Basis of record	PreservedSpecimen	PRESERVED_SPECIMEN
	Modified	2025-06-17	2025-06-17
	Collection code	Mammalogy
	Sampling protocol	[Stranded]
	Institution code	AM
	Other catalog numbers	[ecatalogue.irn:2409844,urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.50187.003]
Attribution	Data resource		Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
	Collection		Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
	License		CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
	Data provider uid		dp20
	Provenance		Published dataset
	Data Resource ID	dr340	dr340
	Institution ID		in4
	Data partner		OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
	Institution		Australian Museum
	Data hub uid	[dh1]
	Collection ID		co80
Location	Country		Australia
	Decimal latitude	-32.30361	-32.30361
	Terrestrial	true	true
	Decimal longitude	152.52194	152.52194
	State province		New South Wales
	Verbatim latitude	32° 18' 13" S
	Biome		TERRESTRIAL
	Lga	Great Lakes (A)
	Marine	false	false
	Location remarks	Australia, New South Wales, Great Lakes, on a beach in Booti Booti National Park, near the campground (32° 18' 13" S, 152° 31' 19" E) 15/10/2015 - 15/10/2015, Taronga Zoo(Presenter), Stranded, Accession
	Country code		AU
	Verbatim longitude	152° 31' 19" E
	Verbatim coordinate system	unknown
	Geodetic datum		EPSG:4326

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