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Occurrence record: Ornithology:HLW40

Preserved specimen of Gelochelidon nilotica (Gmelin, 1789) | Gull-billed Tern recorded on 1915-10-21
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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 Ornithology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ornithology"
Catalog number HLW40
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ornithology:PreservedSpecimen:HLW40
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skin|Dry
Collector W R. McLennan
Sex Male
Individual count 1
Life stage Juvenile
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

Event

Occurrence date 1915-10-21
Supplied date "1915-10-21T00:00:00\1915-10-21T00:00:00"
End day of year 294
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 294

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae
Scientific name Gelochelidon nilotica
Supplied scientific name "Sterna nilotica macrotarsa"
Identified to rank species
Supplied as "Subspecies"
Common name Gull-billed Tern
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes
Family Laridae
Genus Gelochelidon
Supplied as "Sterna"
Species Gelochelidon nilotica
Name match metric higherMatch
Infraspecific epithet macrotarsa
Scientific name authorship (Gmelin, 1789)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality King R
Latitude -12.12
Supplied as: "-12.12"
Longitude 130.4
Supplied as: "130.4"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality King R
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol AMG conversion, collection or Gazetteer
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bonaparte Gulf
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northwest Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bonaparte Gulf
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) DALY

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 398.0 frequency
    Species Richness 272.0 frequency