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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:J40713

Preserved specimen of Upogebia Leach, 1814 | ghost shrimp
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number J40713
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:J40713
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|Wet|ethanol 80%
Identified by C Tudge  
Identified date 1997
Collector Hodgson, A.  
Supplied as "A Hodgson"
Sex Male | Female
Individual count 4
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [hand]
Date identified 1997

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1997, Month: 1, Day:
Supplied as year:1997  month:1 
Sampling protocol hand  
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Arthropoda | Crustacea | Multicrustacea | Malacostraca | Eumalacostraca | Eucarida | Decapoda | Pleocyemata | Gebiidea | Upogebiidae
Scientific name Upogebia
Supplied scientific name "Upogebia africana (Ortmann, 1894)"
Identified to rank genus
Supplied as "Species"
Common name ghost shrimp
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Upogebiidae
Genus Upogebia
Species Upogebia africana
Name match metric higherMatch
Scientific name authorship Leach, 1814
Supplied as (Ortmann, 1894)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography South Africa
Country South Africa
Locality Lower reaches of the Bushmans River estuary, eastern Cape
Latitude -33.68
Supplied as: "-33.68"
Longitude 26.7
Supplied as: "26.7"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Lower reaches of the Bushmans River estuary, eastern Cape
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code ZA

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