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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:A2906

Preserved specimen of Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 | Sperm Whale
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number A2906
Occurrence ID urn:catalog:TMAG:Mammalogy:A2906
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Drew Lee, Kathryn Medlock, Belinda Bauer (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment)  
Supplied as "Drew Lee, Kathryn Medlock, Belinda Bauer (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment)"
Sex Female
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Occurrence date Year: 2009, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:2009 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Physeter macrocephalus
Identified to rank species
Common name Sperm Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Physeteridae
Genus Physeter
Species Physeter macrocephalus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Linnaeus, 1758
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Perkins Island
Latitude -40.78573
Supplied as: "-40.78573"
Longitude 145.10398
Supplied as: "145.10398"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 50
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 50.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Boags
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MURCHISON

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 987.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 350.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 142.5 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 33.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 142.5 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 32.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 350.5 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 51.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.8 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.3500004 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.6 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 16.25 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.915
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.55 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.25 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.6 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.79
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0