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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.87437

Preserved specimen of Penion maximus (Tryon, 1881) | Whelk recorded on 1971/1971
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.87437
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10353274,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.87437"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Loch, Mr Ian W - Australian Museum - Malacology  
Collector M. Lee
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2025-12-22
Identification remarks global Molluscabase family update

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10046322
Identification remarks global Molluscabase family update
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1971, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1971/1971"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Penion maximus
Supplied scientific name "Penion maximus (Tryon, 1881)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Whelk
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Family Austrosiphonidae
Genus Penion
Species Penion maximus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Penion maximus (Tryon, 1881)
Scientific name authorship (Tryon, 1881)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Tryon, 1881)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -27.0
Supplied as: "-27.0"
Longitude 153.58333
Supplied as: "153.58333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Off Moreton Bay
Location remarks [MAL# 49425] Australia, Queensland, Off Moreton Bay (27° 00' 00" S, 153° 35' 00" E) 1971 - 1971, Lee, M(Collector), Trawled.
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 27° 00' 00" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 35' 00" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Moreton Bay
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tweed-Moreton
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Northern Territory

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 3522.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1190.0 frequency