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Occurrence record: CRUST:C80848

Preserved specimen of Paguristes frontalis (H. Milne Edwards, 1836) | Common Hermit Crab recorded on 2023-03-29
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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 Crustacean Collection
Supplied collection code "CRUST"
Catalog number C80848
Occurrence ID 0717:0010204-000C00808480000
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Hara, A.  
Collector Hosie, A.M.
Individual count 2
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Field Number 005
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [SCUBA]
Date identified 2023-01-01

Event

Event ID Bush Blitz Wudjari Country 2023
Field Number 005
Occurrence date 2023-03-29
Supplied as year:2023  month:3  day:29 
Sampling protocol SCUBA  
End day of year 88
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 88

Taxonomy

Scientific name Paguristes frontalis
Identified to rank species
Common name Common Hermit Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Diogenidae
Genus Paguristes
Species Paguristes frontalis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (H. Milne Edwards, 1836)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -33.851289
Supplied as: "-33.851289"
Longitude 124.125945
Supplied as: "124.125945"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality BBR23-002
Island Daw Island
Island group Recherche Archipelago
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 33°51`5"S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 124°7`33"E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Recherche Archipelago
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Eucla
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 South Coast
    NRM Regions 2017 South Coast Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 South Coast Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South Coast Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Eucla
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Goldfields
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF ESPERANCE
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 557.0 frequency
    Species Richness 154.0 frequency
    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 475.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 175.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 14.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 58.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 43.0838 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 64.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 61.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 176.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 16.654167 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 16.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 8.2 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 13.6 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 9.491667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 19.583334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 56.498016 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 263.54626
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 25.0 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 20.0 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 14.533334 °C