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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.377695

Preserved specimen of Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima (Röding, 1798) | Great Clam recorded on 1877
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.377695
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10332276","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.377695"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.377695
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Miller, Ms Alison Clair - Australian Museum - Malacology  
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2016-11
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10006113
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good";
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1877, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1877"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tridacna (Chametrachea) maxima
Supplied scientific name "Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)"
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 canonicalMatch
Accepted name Tridacna maxima (Röding, 1798)
Scientific name authorship (Röding, 1798)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Röding, 1798)

Geospatial

Country Mauritius
Latitude -20.183
Supplied as: "-20.183"
Longitude 57.533
Supplied as: "57.533"
Datum EPSG:4326
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 3978 D] MAURITIUS (20° 11' 00" S, 57° 32' 00" E) 1877 - 1877, Accession";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 20° 11' 0" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code MU
Verbatim longitude 57° 32' 0" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2016/11/17
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2016/11/17
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 10km-100km

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    Political
    World Country Boundaries Mauritius

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 22.433332 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 55.0 %