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Occurrence record: Reptiles:R01017

Preserved specimen of Simalia Gray, 1849 | Amethyst Python recorded on 1971-05-19
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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 "Reptiles"
Catalog number R01017
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Reptiles:R01017
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations body in spirit
Record number PNG 002
Sex not recorded
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation R01017
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1971-05-19
Verbatim event date 19MAY1971
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 Central
Locality LALOKI RIVER, N OF PORT MORESBY; BROWN RIVER ROAD BRIDGE
Habitat
Supplied as "OUT ON ROAD"
Latitude -9.3833
Supplied as: "-9.3833"
Longitude 147.2167
Supplied as: "147.2167"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality LALOKI RIVER, N OF PORT MORESBY
Water body not applicable
Island New Guinea
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code PG
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Taxon match higher rank 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 27.1125 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 77.0 %