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Occurrence record: Arachnids:S28957

Preserved specimen of Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793) | Giant Wood-spider recorded on 1979-07-20
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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 Arachnids
Supplied collection code "Arachnids"
Catalog number S28957
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Arachnids:S28957
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Collector 1.  Monteith, G.B.   2.  Cook, D.J.  
Supplied as "G B Monteith | D J Cook"
Life stage Female
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Field notes 902023
Sampling protocol [General collecting]

Event

Occurrence date 1979-07-20
Sampling protocol General collecting  
Verbatim event date 20 Jul 1979-22 Jul 1979
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Nephila pilipes
Identified to rank species
Common name Giant Wood-spider
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Arachnida
Order Araneae
Family Araneidae
Supplied as "Nephilidae"
Genus Nephila
Species Nephila pilipes
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Fabricius, 1793)
Supplied as (Lucas, 1858)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality West Alligator R (mouth, WA2)
Habitat
Supplied as "Rainforest"
Latitude -12.18333
Supplied as: "-12.18333"
Longitude 132.2667
Supplied as: "132.2667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Field notes 902023
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 12° 10' 59.988" South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 132° 16' 0.12" East

Additional properties

object id AR26723

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Van Diemens Gulf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1436.5 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 6.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 5.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 110.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 372.25 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 82.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 953.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 10.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.675001 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.8 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.625 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 18.275 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.125 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.5 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.3 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.6 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.595
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 35.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.6 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0