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Occurrence record: Molluscs:MO82092

Preserved specimen of Notocypraea piperita (Gray, 1824) | Peppered Cowry
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Dataset

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 Molluscs
Supplied collection code "Molluscs"
Catalog number MO82092
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Molluscs:MO82092
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Dry
Identified by T Carless  
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Hand]
Date identified 1988-12
Supplied as Dec 1988

Event

Sampling protocol Hand  
Verbatim event date Dec 1988
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Notocypraea piperita
Identified to rank species
Common name Peppered Cowry
Supplied common name "Peppered Cowrie"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Supplied as "Littorinimorpha"
Family Cypraeidae
Genus Notocypraea
Species Notocypraea piperita
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1824)
Supplied as (Gray, 1825)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Cat Bay, Phillip Island, Victoria
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -38.4986924
Supplied as: "-38.5"
Longitude 145.1344041
Supplied as: "145.133333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD84"
Location remarks Beached after storm
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38° 30' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 8' East

Additional properties

object id 261579

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Victorian Embayments
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bass Strait Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Victoria
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 8088.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1582.0 frequency