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Occurrence record: invertebrates:E46505

Preserved specimen of Opisthoteuthis persephone Berry, 1918 | Octopus recorded on 2000-04-23
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "invertebrates"
Catalog number E46505
Occurrence ID TMAG: E46505
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by T.J. Verhoeff  
Collector A. Graham
Sex F
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [Market trawl (McKenna)]
Date identified 2020-02-11

Event

Occurrence date 2000-04-23
Sampling protocol Market trawl (McKenna)  
End day of year 114
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 114

Taxonomy

Scientific name Opisthoteuthis persephone
Original name usage Opisthoteuthis persephone
Identified to rank species
Common name Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Opisthoteuthidae
Genus Opisthoteuthis
Species Opisthoteuthis persephone
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Berry, 1918
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Eastern Bass Strait: 80 km SSW of Mallacoota_stn SS200001_205
Latitude -38.2323
Supplied as: "-38.2323"
Longitude 149.582
Supplied as: "149.582"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Opisthoteuthis persephone

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Southeast Transition
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Transition
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Victoria
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 205.0 frequency
    Species Richness 123.0 frequency