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Occurrence record: MO:S21691

Preserved specimen of Acanthopleura spinosa (Bruguière, 1792)
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection
Supplied collection code "MO"
Catalog number S21691
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:21691
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Wells, F.E.  
Collector Semeniuk, V.  
Supplied as "Semeniuk, V."
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID Woodside Petroleum NW Shelf Development Project 1978
Occurrence date Year: 1978, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1978 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Acanthopleura spinosa
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Polyplacophora
Order Chitonida
Family Chitonidae
Genus Acanthopleura
Species Acanthopleura spinosa
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Bruguière, 1792)
Subfamily Acanthopleurinae
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -20.5166
Supplied as: "-20.5166"
Longitude 116.85
Supplied as: "116.8500"
Datum EPSG:4326
Island group Dampier Archipelago
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to Egaz
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 20°31`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 116°51`E

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    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Ningaloo Reef & NW Western Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pilbarra (nearshore)
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Western Australia
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Roebourne
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF KARRATHA
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Ngarluma/Yindjibarndi
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) PILBARA, MP
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Hummock grasslands
    Vegetation types - present Hummock grasslands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 250.63637 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 47.454544 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 98.454544 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 137.54546 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 18.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 142.90909 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 23.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 23.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 27.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 26.418182 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.454546 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.481818 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 21.127274 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.354546 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.881817 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48090908 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.2836363
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 35.936363 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 30.672728 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 30.636364 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.08
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.15
    Elevation 32.0 m