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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:C24974

Preserved specimen of Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) | Pygmy Sperm Whale recorded on 1970-06-09
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number C24974
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Mammalogy:PreservedSpecimen:C24974
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skull (part)|Dry
Collector Warneke, R.M.  
Supplied as "R M. Warneke"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
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
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Occurrence date 1970-06-09
Supplied date "1970-06-09T00:00:00\1970-06-09T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Mammalia | Cetacea | Odontoceti | Kogiidae
Scientific name Kogia breviceps
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 exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Blainville, 1838)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Forrest Caves, Phillip Is
Latitude -38.53
Supplied as: "-38.53"
Longitude 145.32
Supplied as: "145.32"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Forrest Caves, Phillip Is
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol AMG conversion, collection or Gazetteer
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Victoria
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Other forests and woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Elevation 17.0 m