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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P010304

Preserved specimen of Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima (Röding, 1798) | Great Clam recorded on 1998-02-01
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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 P010304
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P010304
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 1998

Event

Occurrence date 1998-02-01
Supplied as year:1998  month:2  day:1 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima
Supplied scientific name "Tridacna gigas"
Identified to rank species
Common name Great Clam
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Family Cardiidae
Genus Tridacna
Species Tridacna maxima
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Röding, 1798)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Indonesia
Locality coastal village just south of Pepela Bay, NE. coast of Palau Roti (= Roti Island), northern Timor Sea, Indonesia.
Latitude -10.59937
Supplied as: "-10.59937"
Longitude 123.38322
Supplied as: "123.38322"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code ID

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