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Occurrence record: invertebrates:E28442

Preserved specimen of Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 | Southern Ocean Giant Squid recorded on 1992-09-26
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "invertebrates"
Catalog number E28442
Occurrence ID TMAG: E28442
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Y. Cherel  
Collector Tmag  
Supplied as "TMAG"
Associated Occurrence Status Representative record
Associated occurrences This record has 1 inferred associated occurrences
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [Extracted from whale stomach]
Associated records REPRESENTATIVE
Occurrence remarks from stomach of beached pilot whale (Globicephala melas)
Date identified 2010-09

Event

Occurrence date 1992-09-26
Supplied date "26/9/1992"
Sampling protocol Extracted from whale stomach  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Architeuthis dux
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Ocean Giant Squid
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Teuthida
Supplied as "Oegopsida"
Family Architeuthidae
Genus Architeuthis
Species Architeuthis dux
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Steenstrup, 1857
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Supplied as: "TAS"
Locality Bicheno
Latitude -41.8716029
Supplied as: "-41.873"
Longitude 148.300008
Supplied as: "148.299"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Architeuthis dux

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record has been identified as the representative occurrence in a group of associated occurrences. This mean other records have been detected that seem to relate to this record and this particular record has the most detailed information on the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID ac2c3d43-adc8-4b9d-bf47-52f9084a1cfd
    Data Resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Architeuthis dux
    Coordinates -41.8716029,148.300008
    Related records
    Record UUID e6026b04-ae21-48da-9d27-68abe75b1773
    Data Resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Architeuthis dux
    Coordinates -41.8716029,148.300008

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Freycinet
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    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 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 717.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 154.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 11.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 148.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 20.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 200.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 21.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 234.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 45.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 13.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 10.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.53 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.96
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.1 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 17.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 15.8 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 12.9875 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.71
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.93