Search Specimens

OZCAM (Online Zoo-log-i-cal Col-lec-tions of Aus-tralian Muse-ums) pro-vides access to an online data-base of records aggre-gated from fau-nal col-lec-tions data-bases in Aus-tralian museums.

Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.27141

Preserved specimen of Polyonyx transversus (Haswell, 1882) | Polished Porcelain Crab recorded on 1977-12
   API

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 Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number P.27141
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1058280","urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.27141"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.27141
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Brown, Diane E. - Australian Museum  
Collector 1.  Australian Museum   2.  Invertebrates, Marine  
Supplied as "Weate, Miss Penelope Blackburne - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1036474
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1977, Month: 12, Day:
Supplied date "1977-12"
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Polyonyx transversus
Supplied scientific name "Polyonyx transversus (Haswell, 1882)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Polished Porcelain Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Porcellanidae
Genus Polyonyx
Species Polyonyx transversus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Polyonyx transversus (Haswell, 1882)
Scientific name authorship (Haswell, 1882)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Haswell, 1882)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -36.883
Supplied as: "-36.883"
Longitude 149.933
Supplied as: "149.933"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Merimbula
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Australia, New South Wales, Merimbula (36° 53' S, 149° 56' E) /12/1977 - /12/1977";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 36° 53' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 149° 56' E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2018/6/28
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2018/6/28
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Show/Hide 85 passed properties
    Show/Hide 7 missing properties
    Show/Hide 21 tests that have not been run

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness Atlas of Life in the Coastal Wilderness
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    GER Kosciuszko to Coast GER Kosciuszko to Coast
    GER National Corridor GER National Corridor
    Great Eastern Ranges Initiative GER Great Eastern Ranges Initiative
    NRM Regions 2010 Southern Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 South East NSW
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South East NSW
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Twofold Shelf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt open forests
    Vegetation types - present Eucalyptus open forest

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 824.25 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 150.25 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 6.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 150.25 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 21.5 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 227.5 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 20.75 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 248.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 39.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.824999 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 15.2 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.825 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.7 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.6 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 10.775 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.1975
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 24.849998 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 19.575 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 18.3 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.6175
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.8575