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Occurrence record: Ichthyology:55130

Preserved specimen of Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872) | Southern Bluefin Tuna
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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 Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number 55130
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ichthyology:PreservedSpecimen:55130
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations ethanol 70%
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
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
State conservation Conservation Dependent

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1891, Month: 4, Day:
Supplied as year:1891  month:4 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Craniata | Gnathostomata | Actinopterygii | Perciformes | Scombridae
Scientific name Thunnus maccoyii
Supplied scientific name "Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau, 1872)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Bluefin Tuna
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Scombridae
Genus Thunnus
Species Thunnus maccoyii
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Castelnau, 1872)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Port Phillip Bay, Hobsons Bay
Latitude -37.87
Supplied as: "-37.87"
Longitude 144.93
Supplied as: "144.93"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Port Phillip Bay, Hobsons Bay
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Gazetteer
Georeference protocol gazetteer (Aus)
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Victorian Embayments
    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 Victorian Embayments
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 278005.0 frequency
    Species Richness 7130.0 frequency