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Occurrence record: Birds:O20563

Preserved specimen of Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | Southern Cassowary
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Birds
Supplied collection code "Birds"
Catalog number O20563
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Birds:O20563
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Skin
Life stage Male
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Verbatim event date Nov 1896
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Casuarius casuarius
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Cassowary
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Struthioniformes
Supplied as "Casuariiformes"
Family Casuariidae
Genus Casuarius
Species Casuarius casuarius
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
Locality Yodda Junction, Mambare R
Terrestrial false
Continent OCEANIA
Supplied as Oceania
Marine false
Country Code PG

Additional properties

object id VE18540

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