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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.615231

Preserved specimen of Pinctada Röding, 1798 | Pearl Oysters recorded on 1998-10/1998-10
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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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.615231
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10509550,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.615231"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Loch, Mr Ian W - Australian Museum - Malacology  
Collector C. Woodroffe, D. Kennedy & University of Wollongong
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment Smith-MacIntyre Grab
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Smith-MacIntyre Grab]
Date identified 2025-07-07

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1106415
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1998, Month: 10, Day:
Supplied date "1998-10/1998-10"
Sampling protocol Smith-MacIntyre Grab  
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Pinctada
Identified to rank genus
Common name Pearl Oysters
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Ostreida
Family Pteriidae
Genus Pinctada
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Pinctada
Scientific name authorship Röding, 1798
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
Latitude -31.633055
Supplied as: "-31.633055"
Longitude 159.15973
Supplied as: "159.15973"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Lord Howe Shelf
Location remarks [MAL# 69260] Australia, Lord Howe Shelf (31° 37' 59" S, 159° 09' 35" E) /10/1998 - /10/1998, Woodroffe, Associate Professor Colin - University of Wollongong - School of Geosciences(Collector), Kennedy, David - University of Wollongong - School of Geoscien
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 31° 37' 59" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 159° 09' 35" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 10m-100m

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Lord Howe Island
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Lord Howe
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Lord Howe
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Lord Howe
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Lord Howe
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Lord Howe Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Lord Howe Province
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 New South Wales
    Marine
    Australia's network of Marine Parks Lord Howe Marine Park
    Australian Marine Parks 2024 Lord Howe

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 409.0 frequency
    Species Richness 125.0 frequency