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Occurrence record: Birds:B21859

Preserved specimen of Phalacrocorax (Phalacrocorax) carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) | Great Cormorant recorded on 1976-02-17
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Birds"
Catalog number B21859
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B21859
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skeleton complete
Sex male
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B21859
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1976-02-17
Verbatim event date 17FEB1976
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Phalacrocorax (Phalacrocorax) carbo
Supplied scientific name "Phalacrocorax carbo"
Identified to rank species
Common name Great Cormorant
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Pelecaniformes
Family Phalacrocoracidae
Genus Phalacrocorax
Species Phalacrocorax carbo
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country South Africa
State or Territory Western Cape Province
Supplied as: "Western Cape"
Locality PAARL SEWAGE FARM, CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
Latitude -33.7
Supplied as: "-33.7"
Longitude 19.0
Supplied as: "19"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality PAARL SEWAGE FARM, CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Africa
Marine false
Country Code ZA
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries South Africa

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 17.941668 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %