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Occurrence record: MO:S115705

Preserved specimen of Euprymna tasmanica (Steenstrup, 1887) | Southern Bobtail Squid
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection
Supplied collection code "MO"
Catalog number S115705
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MO:115705
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations 75% Ethanol
Identified by Adam, W.  
Collector Barker, E.M.
Individual count 2
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1918, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1918 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Euprymna tasmanica
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Bobtail Squid
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiolida
Supplied as "Sepiida"
Family Sepiolidae
Genus Euprymna
Species Euprymna tasmanica
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Steenstrup, 1887)
Supplied as (Pfeffer, 1884)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat Marine
Latitude -32.0
Supplied as: "-32.0000"
Longitude 115.775
Supplied as: "115.7750"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to G-EARTH
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 32°0`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 115°46.5`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions SW West Australia
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Swan River
    CAPAD 2022 - Terrestrial (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Swan River
    Directory of Important Wetlands Swan-Canning Estuary
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) Swan Coastal Plain
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) Perth
    NRM Regions 2010 Perth
    NRM Regions 2017 Swan Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Swan Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Swan Region
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Swan Coastal Plain
    IBRA 7 Regions Swan Coastal Plain
    IBRA 7 Subregions Perth
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 South West Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 SWAN COAST-AVON RIVER
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Whadjuk People Indigenous Land Use Agreement
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 South West
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Western Australia
    Electorates March 2025 Curtin
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated South Perth
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) CURTIN
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NORTH METROPOLITAN REGION
    PSMA States (2016) WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 42643.0 frequency
    Species Richness 3209.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 729.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 388.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 40.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 85.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 46.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 36.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 412.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.6 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 38.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 18.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 14.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 23.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.3
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 30.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 23.5 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 14.3 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 727.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 407.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 7.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 35.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 86.866104 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 44.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 155.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 407.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 18.579166 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 19.599998 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 10.2 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 14.2 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 9.075 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 23.266666 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 46.30102 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 388.1334
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 29.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 23.633333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 14.2 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.51
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 3.0 m