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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F285752

Preserved specimen of Melliteryx acupuncta (Hedley, 1902) | Punctured Lepton
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F285752
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F285752
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|dry
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Mollusca | Bivalvia | Heterodonta | Imparidentia | Galeommatida | Galeommatoidea | Lasaeidae
Scientific name Melliteryx acupuncta
Supplied scientific name "Melliteryx acupuncta (Hedley, 1902)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Punctured Lepton
Supplied common name "Coin shell"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Supplied as "Galeommatida"
Family Lasaeidae
Genus Melliteryx
Species Melliteryx acupuncta
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Hedley, 1902)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Western Port Bay
Latitude -38.25
Supplied as: "-38.25"
Longitude 145.28
Supplied as: "145.28"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Western Port Bay
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol Geoscience Australia - Place names website
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.433333 °C