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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F220660

Preserved specimen of Modiolus areolatus (Gould, 1850) | Southern Horse Mussel recorded on 1967-04-29
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F220660
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F220660
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|Dry
Identified by Sue Boyd  
Collector Robertson, R.C.  
Supplied as "R C. Robertson"
Individual count 2
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 2015-04-02
Supplied as 02/04/2015

Event

Occurrence date 1967-04-29
Supplied date "1967-04-29T00:00:00\1967-04-29T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Conchifera | Bivalvia | Pteriomorphia | Mytiloida | Mytilidae
Scientific name Modiolus areolatus
Supplied scientific name "Modiolus (Modiolus) areolatus Gould, 1850"
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Horse Mussel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Mytilida
Supplied as "Mytiloida"
Family Mytilidae
Genus Modiolus
Species Modiolus areolatus
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gould, 1850)
Supplied as Gould, 1850
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Subgenus Modiolus
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Somers, Western Port
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 145.17
Supplied as: "145.17"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Somers, Western Port
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 South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and 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
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.120833 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Elevation 23.0 m