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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F160325

Preserved specimen of Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852 | Gloomy Octopus recorded on 1988-01-23
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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 Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F160325
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F160325
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Collector Lu, C.C.  
Supplied as "C C. Lu"
Sex Unknown
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
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [Dipnet]

Event

Occurrence date 1988-01-23
Supplied date "1988-01-23T10:30:00\1988-01-23T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol Dipnet  
Date precision DAY
Event time 10:30:00

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Octopoda | Incirrata | Octopodidae
Scientific name Octopus tetricus
Supplied scientific name "Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852"
Identified to rank species
Common name Gloomy Octopus
Supplied common name "Common Sydney Octopus"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Octopus
Species Octopus tetricus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gould, 1852
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Western Australia
Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Locality Princess Royal Harbour, Albany
Latitude -35.075
Supplied as: "-35.075"
Longitude 117.925
Supplied as: "117.925"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Princess Royal Harbour, Albany
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 SW West Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 South Coast
    NRM Regions 2017 South Coast Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South Coast Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions WA South Coast
    Land Management
    Western Australian Biodiversity Science Research Priority Regions South-West
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF ALBANY
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) O'CONNOR
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Other native forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 896.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 383.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 5.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 79.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 58.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 87.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 35.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 397.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 16.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 42.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.0 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 13.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.4 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 19.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.53 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.85
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.1 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 19.1 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 13.2 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 15.283334 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 55.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.65
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 17.0 m