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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P031280

Preserved specimen of Placuna ephippium (Philipsson in Retzius, 1788) | Saddle Window Shell recorded on 2004-11-29
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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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P031280
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P031280
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
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 2005

Event

Occurrence date 2004-11-29
Supplied as year:2004  month:11  day:29 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Placuna ephippium
Identified to rank species
Common name Saddle Window Shell
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Pectinida
Family Placunidae
Genus Placuna
Species Placuna ephippium
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Philipsson in Retzius, 1788)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality approx. 500 metres west of McPherson Point, South Goulburn Island, central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -11.6447
Supplied as: "-11.6447"
Longitude 133.43993
Supplied as: "133.43993"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS 84"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arnhem Land
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Cobourg
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA