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Occurrence record: Reptile:R13210

Preserved specimen of Hydrophis platurus (Linnaeus, 1766) | Yellow-bellied Sea Snake recorded on 1985-09-16
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Reptile Collection
Supplied collection code "Reptile"
Catalog number R13210
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Reptile:R13210
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by P.G. Horner  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1986

Event

Occurrence date 1985-09-16
Supplied as year:1985  month:9  day:16 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Hydrophis platurus
Identified to rank species
Common name Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Supplied as "Serpentes"
Family Elapidae
Supplied as "Hydrophiidae"
Genus Hydrophis
Species Hydrophis platurus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1766)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Supplied as: "QLD"
Locality East of Cape Wessel, Gulf of Carpentaria
Latitude -10.733
Supplied as: "-10.733"
Longitude 138.117
Supplied as: "138.117"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Arafura
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone