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Occurrence record: Coelenterate:C014956

Preserved specimen of Catostylus mosaicus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | Blue Blubber recorded on 2004-11-21
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Coelenterate Collection
Supplied collection code "Coelenterate"
Catalog number C014956
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Coelenterate:C014956
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by P.N. Alderslade  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2004

Event

Occurrence date 2004-11-21
Supplied as year:2004  month:11  day:21 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Catostylus mosaicus
Identified to rank species
Common name Blue Blubber
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Scyphozoa
Order Rhizostomeae
Family Catostylidae
Genus Catostylus
Species Catostylus mosaicus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality Mouth of Wildman River, Kakadu NP, NT
Latitude -12.297
Supplied as: "-12.297"
Longitude 132.06383
Supplied as: "132.06383"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS 84"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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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) 1446.6666 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) 109.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 388.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 83.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 951.3333 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 10.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.8 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.533333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 17.666668 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 11.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.083334 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.59 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.62
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 36.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.7 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.51
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0