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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.458121

Preserved specimen of Sepia whitleyana (Iredale, 1926) | Whitley's Cuttlefish recorded on 1976-07-05
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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.458121
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10468861,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.458121"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Miller, Ms Alison Clair - Australian Museum - Malacology  
Collector W.F. Ponder & I.W. Loch
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2025-01-16
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Mar/2007

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10029499
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Mar/2007
Occurrence date 1976-07-05
Supplied date "1976-07-05/1976-07-06"
End day of year 188
Date precision DAY_RANGE
Start day of year 187
Event date end 1976-07-06

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sepia whitleyana
Supplied scientific name "Acanthosepion whitleyanum Iredale, 1926"
Identified to rank species
Common name Whitley's Cuttlefish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Sepia
Supplied as "Acanthosepion"
Species Sepia whitleyana
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Acanthosepion whitleyanum Iredale, 1926
Scientific name authorship (Iredale, 1926)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Iredale, 1926

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -9.9
Supplied as: "-9.9"
Longitude 142.76666
Supplied as: "142.76666"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Torres Strait, Yam Is, S side
Location remarks [MAL# 922 C] Australia, Queensland, Torres Strait, Yam Is, S side (9° 54' 00" S, 142° 46' 00" E) 05/07/1976 - 06/07/1976, Ponder, Dr Winston Frank - Australian Museum - Malacology(Collector), Loch, Mr Ian W - Australian Museum - Malacology(Collector)
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 09° 54' 00" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 142° 46' 00" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Torres Strait
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Torres Strait
    NRM Regions 2017 Torres Strait
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Torres Strait
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Torres Strait
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Torres Strait
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Torres Strait
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Leichhardt
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TORRES SHIRE
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous owned, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Unresolved Tenure

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1444.0 frequency
    Species Richness 566.0 frequency
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 69.0 %