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Occurrence record: MO:S15867

Preserved specimen of Octopus kaurna Stranks, 1990 | Southern Sand 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 S15867
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:15867
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Special Alcohol 100% (Ethanol 93% & Methanol 7%)
Identified by Whisson, C.S.  
Collector 1.  Morrison   2.  , S.   3.  , S.M.  
Supplied as "Morrison, S. & Slack-Smith, S.M."
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Trawl]
Date identified 2005-01-01

Event

Event ID FWA-WAM RV "Naturaliste" Shark Bay Survey II Feb/Mar 2003
Occurrence date Year: 2003, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:2003 
Sampling protocol Trawl  
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Octopus kaurna
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Sand Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Octopus
Species Octopus kaurna
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Stranks, 1990
Name parse type DOUBTFUL

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -24.9246
Supplied as: "-24.9246"
Longitude 113.3708
Supplied as: "113.3708"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality 09/185/S
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to Label
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 24°55.48`S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 113°22.25`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Shark Bay
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Western Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Shark Bay
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF CARNARVON