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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.16854

Preserved specimen of POLYCHAETA
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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 Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number W.16854
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1125150,urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.16854"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Poore et al.  
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment Smith-McIntyre Grab
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Smith-McIntyre Grab]

Event

Sampling protocol Smith-McIntyre Grab  
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name POLYCHAETA
Supplied scientific name "Decamastus sp."
Identified to rank class
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Genus Decamastus
Species Decamastus sp.
Name match metric higherMatch
Accepted name Decamastus sp.
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Latitude -38.476387
Supplied as: "-38.476387"
Longitude 145.37306
Supplied as: "145.37306"
Datum EPSG:4326
Location remarks [WBES 1740-2] Australia, Victoria, Western Port (38° 28' 35" S, 145° 22' 23" E) 26/11/1973 - 26/11/1973, Smith-McIntyre Grab
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38° 28' 35" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 22' 23" E

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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
    Ramsar Wetlands of Australia 2024 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 46241.0 frequency
    Species Richness 905.0 frequency