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Occurrence record: MO:S115883

Preserved specimen of Amphioctopus polyzenia (Gray, 1849)
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection
Supplied collection code "MO"
Catalog number S115883
Other catalog numbers ["254-68"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:115883
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations 75% Ethanol
Identified by Norman, M.  
Collector Gamberg, E.  
Supplied as "Gamberg, E."
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Dredge]
Date identified 1998-01-01

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1961, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1961 
Sampling protocol Dredge  
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Amphioctopus polyzenia
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Amphioctopus
Species Amphioctopus polyzenia
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1849)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -12.6633
Supplied as: "-12.6633"
Longitude 141.8167
Supplied as: "141.8167"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to G-EARTH
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 12°39.8`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 141°49`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    NRM Regions 2010 Cape York
    NRM Regions 2017 Cape York
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Cape York
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions West Cape York
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Wik & Wik Way People and Rio Tinto Aluminium Limited ILUA
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 COOK SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 27239.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1532.0 frequency