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Occurrence record: MO:S29460

Preserved specimen of Hapalochlaena maculosa (Hoyle, 1883) | Southern Blue-ringed Octopus
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection
Supplied collection code "MO"
Catalog number S29460
Other catalog numbers ["915-85"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:29460
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Special Alcohol 75% (Ethanol 93% & Methanol 7%)
Collector Wadley, V.  
Supplied as "Wadley, V. (CSIRO)"
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID Epibenthic Macrofaunal Study
Occurrence date Year: 1973, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1973 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Hapalochlaena maculosa
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Blue-ringed Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Hapalochlaena
Species Hapalochlaena maculosa
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Hoyle, 1883)
Supplied as Mather, P.
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -27.25
Supplied as: "-27.2500"
Longitude 153.25
Supplied as: "153.2500"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality J21
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to Egaz
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 27°15`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153°15`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Moreton Bay
    Directory of Important Wetlands Kakadu National Park
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Wet tussock grassland with herbs, sedges or rushes, herblands or ferns