Occurrence record: Mammalogy:CS1122
Dataset
Data partner | OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider |
Data resource | South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM |
Institution code |
South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA" |
Collection |
South Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy" |
Catalog number | CS1122 |
Other catalog numbers | ["ecatalogue.irn:572421"] |
Record type |
Human observation
Supplied basis "HumanObservation" |
Individual count | 1 |
License | CC-BY |
Type | Event |
Presence/Absence | PRESENT Supplied as present |
Country conservation | Endangered |
Occurrence remarks | 150m from shore. 250m from observer. How observed: from shore with naked eye and 8x binoculars Sighting Note: when whale submerged it became a white shape easily followed - it was either Images at South Australian Museum: no |
State conservation | Endangered Supplied as E |
Event
Event ID | urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:207757 |
Occurrence date | 1991-10-28 |
Date precision | DAY |
Event time | 16:30: |
Taxonomy
Scientific name |
Balaenoptera musculus
Supplied scientific name "Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)" |
Identified to rank | species |
Common name | Blue Whale |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Mammalia |
Order | Cetacea |
Family | Balaenopteridae |
Genus | Balaenoptera |
Species | Balaenoptera musculus |
Name match metric | exactMatch |
Scientific name authorship | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Name parse type | SCIENTIFIC |
Geospatial
Country | Australia |
State or Territory | South Australia |
Latitude |
-35.6375 Supplied as: "-35.6375" |
Longitude |
138.5361 Supplied as: "138.5361" |
Datum | EPSG:4326 |
Verbatim locality | Newland Head | 1.5 km NE |
Coordinate precision | 0.0001 |
Terrestrial | true |
Verbatim latitude | 35 38 15 S |
Biome | TERRESTRIAL |
Marine | false |
Country Code | AU |
Verbatim longitude | 138 32 10 E |
Data quality tests
Test name | Result |
Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid | Warning |
Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 | Warning |
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Additional political boundaries information
Area Management | |
CAPAD 2016 Marine | Encounter |
CAPAD 2020 Marine | Encounter |
NRM Regions 2010 | South East Queensland |
NRM Regions 2017 | South East Queensland |
Area management | |
National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 | South East Queensland |
Biodiversity | |
IMCRA 4 Regions | Spencer Gulf Shelf Province |
IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions | Coorong |
States including coastal waters | Queensland (including Coastal Waters) |