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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:M.25478

Preserved specimen of Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) | Pygmy Sperm Whale recorded on 1992-04-04
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number M.25478
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:4018363","urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.25478"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Mammalogy:M.25478
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector 1.  Dodkin, Mike   2.  Npws  
Supplied as "Dodkin, Mike - NPWS"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:4010567
Occurrence date 1992-04-04
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Kogia breviceps
Supplied scientific name "Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Pygmy Sperm Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Kogiidae
Supplied as "Physeteridae"
Genus Kogia
Species Kogia breviceps
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Accepted name Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838)
Scientific name authorship (Blainville, 1838)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (de Blainville, 1838)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -31.55
Supplied as: "-31.55"
Longitude 152.866
Supplied as: "152.866"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Lake Cathie, S of Port Macquarie
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Australia, New South Wales, Lake Cathie, S of Port Macquarie (31° 33' S, 152° 52' E) 04/04/1992 - 04/04/1992, Field Collected - Terrestrial";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 31° 33' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 152° 52' E

Additional properties

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dcterms type PhysicalObject

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 North Coast
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North Coast
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Manning Shelf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt tall open forests
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 50.0 %
    Elevation 3.0 m