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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:C18057

Preserved specimen of Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) | Brown Rat recorded on 1974-11-05
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Dataset

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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number C18057
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Mammalogy:PreservedSpecimen:C18057
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Spirit|Wet|ethanol 70%
Collector Mammal Survey Group (MSG), Field Naturalists Club Victoria (FNCV)  
Supplied as "Mammal Survey Group (MSG), Field Naturalists Club Victoria (FNCV)"
Sex Male
Individual count 1
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

Event

Occurrence date 1974-11-05
Supplied date "1974-11-05T00:00:00\1974-11-05T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Mammalia | Rodentia | Myomorpha | Muroidea | Muridae | Murinae
Scientific name Rattus norvegicus
Identified to rank species
Common name Brown Rat
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Rodentia
Family Muridae
Genus Rattus
Species Rattus norvegicus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Berkenhout, 1769)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality 1.6 km south of Bunyip River,South Gippsland highway
Latitude -38.22
Supplied as: "-38.22"
Longitude 145.45
Supplied as: "145.45"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality 1.6 km south of Bunyip River,South Gippsland highway
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol AMG conversion, collection or Gazetteer
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial North Western Port N.C.R.
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial North Western Port N.C.R.
    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
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Victoria
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Cardinia - South
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Other grasslands,herblands, sedgelands and rushlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.458333 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Elevation 1.0 m