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Occurrence record: Fishes:I3954

Preserved specimen of Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) | Blackspotted Whipray
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Fishes
Supplied collection code "Fishes"
Catalog number I3954
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Fishes:I3954
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Maculabatis astra
Supplied scientific name "Himantura astra"
Identified to rank species
Common name Blackspotted Whipray
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Myliobatiformes
Family Dasyatidae
Genus Maculabatis
Supplied as "Himantura"
Species Maculabatis astra
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality Sir Edward Pellew Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -15.55
Supplied as: "-15.55"
Longitude 136.783333
Supplied as: "136.783333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 15° 33' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 136° 47' East

Additional properties

object id FI3954

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Pellew
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northern Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pellew
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BARKLY

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 374.0 frequency
    Species Richness 178.0 frequency