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Occurrence record: Birds:B29953

Preserved specimen of Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | Southern Cassowary recorded on 2001-11-07
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Birds"
Catalog number B29953
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B29953
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skin; tissues (loans)
Record number MB03/2001
Sex male
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B29953
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 2001-11-07
Verbatim event date 07NOV2001
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Casuarius casuarius
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Cassowary
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Struthioniformes
Family Casuariidae
Genus Casuarius
Species Casuarius casuarius
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality MISSION BEACH/EL ARISH ROAD; 300 METRES N OF MOUNTAIN VIEW ROAD
Latitude -17.8667
Supplied as: "-17.8667"
Longitude 146.0667
Supplied as: "146.0667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality MISSION BEACH/EL ARISH ROAD
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Show/Hide 87 passed properties
    Show/Hide 7 missing properties
    Show/Hide 19 tests that have not been run

    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 1bb773ad-a795-4192-a9ad-55d3593b31bf
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.8667,146.0667
    Related records
    Record UUID 33984af1-19ac-4e36-ac20-53a1cf19c3c6
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.8667,146.0667
    Record UUID 922e34c9-5ffb-4847-a6b4-542648c76100
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.8667,146.0667

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Girringun
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Djiru
    NRM Regions 2010 Wet Tropics
    NRM Regions 2017 Wet Tropics
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Wet Tropics
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Subregions Innisfail
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 JOHNSTONE RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Djiru Cassowary Coast Regional Council Area ILUA
    Indigenous Protected Areas 2013 Girringun
    Local Government Areas 2011 Cassowary Coast (R)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Johnstone
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CASSOWARY COAST REGIONAL
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Djiru People #2
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 44
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 2033
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) JOHNSTONE
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) INNISFAIL - CASSOWARY COAST
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) CAIRNS
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) KENNEDY
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) INNISFAIL - JOHNSTONE
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) JOHNSTONE
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) CAIRNS - ATHERTON
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) HILL
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous co-managed, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Rainforest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Rainforest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Rainforests and Vine Thickets
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Tropical or sub-tropical rainforest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Rainforests and vine thickets
    Vegetation types - present Rainforest and vine thickets

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 3166.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 314.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 12.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 228.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 74.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 1357.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 162.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1646.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 19.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.2 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 23.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 19.8 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.93
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 26.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 26.2 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.641666 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.91
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 109.0 m