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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:M16951

Preserved specimen of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale recorded on 1991
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number M16951
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:148952"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations (IC)
Collector Haselgrove, T  
Supplied as "Haselgrove, T"
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:86524
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1991, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1991"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Orcinus orca
Supplied scientific name "Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -35.93
Supplied as: "-35.93"
Longitude 137.62
Supplied as: "137.62"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality D'estrees Bay | west of
Coordinate precision 0.01
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 35 56 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 137 37 E

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    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Southern Kangaroo Island
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Southern Kangaroo Island
    NRM Regions 2010 Kangaroo Island
    NRM Regions 2017 Kangaroo Island
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Kangaroo Island
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Eyre
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)