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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.59238

Preserved specimen of Apomatus Philippi, 1844 recorded on 2025-10-20
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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 Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number W.59238
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10684013,urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.59238"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Kupriyanova, Dr Elena K. - Australian Museum - Collections & Research  
Collector Biological Processing Team
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment beam trawl
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [beam trawl]
Date identified 2026

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10094181
Occurrence date 2025-10-20
Supplied date "2025-10-20/2025-10-20"
Sampling protocol beam trawl  
End day of year 293
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 293

Taxonomy

Scientific name Apomatus
Supplied scientific name "Apomatus sp."
Identified to rank genus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Sabellida
Family Serpulidae
Genus Apomatus
Species Apomatus sp.
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Apomatus sp.
Scientific name authorship Philippi, 1844
Name parse type INFORMAL

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -23.221111
Supplied as: "-23.221111"
Longitude 153.79695
Supplied as: "153.79695"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Coral Sea, Marion Plateau 7
Location remarks [IN2025_V06_053] Australia, Queensland, Coral Sea, Marion Plateau 7 (23° 12' 45" S, 153° 47' 53" E) 20/10/2025 - 20/10/2025, Biological Processing Team(Collector), beam trawl
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 23° 13' 16" S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 47' 49" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Keppel Islands & Capricorn Bunker Reefs, Souther GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Coral Sea
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Coral Sea
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Coral Sea
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Coral Sea
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Central Eastern Transition
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Transition
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Southern and Western Queensland Region
    Representative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Body areas (updated 24th March 2026) Southern and Western Queensland Region
    Marine
    Australia's network of Marine Parks Coral Sea Marine Park
    Australian Marine Parks 2024 Coral Sea
    Australian Marine Parks 2026 Coral Sea
    CAPAD 2024 Marine Coral Sea
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 9.0 frequency
    Species Richness 9.0 frequency