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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:M.25479

Preserved specimen of Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) | Pygmy Sperm Whale recorded on 1991-12-02
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number M.25479
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:4018364","urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.25479"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Mammalogy:M.25479
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Kemper, C  
Collector 1.  Williams, Mark   2.  NSW NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, GRAFTON  
Supplied as "Mark Williams - NSW NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, GRAFTON"
Sex Female
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1993

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:4012765
Occurrence date 1991-12-02
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Kogia breviceps
Supplied scientific name "Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Pygmy Sperm Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Kogiidae
Supplied as "Physeteridae"
Genus Kogia
Species Kogia breviceps
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838)
Scientific name authorship (Blainville, 1838)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Blainville, 1838)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -29.5
Supplied as: "-29.5"
Longitude 153.366
Supplied as: "153.366"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Angourie Back Beach
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Australia, New South Wales, Angourie Back Beach (29° 30' S, 153° 22' E) 02/12/1991 - 02/12/1991, Field Collected - Terrestrial";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 29° 30' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 22' E

Additional properties

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dcterms type PhysicalObject

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Solitary Islands
    NRM Regions 2010 Hunter-Central Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 Hunter
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Hunter
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1105.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 204.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 11.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 170.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 33.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 342.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 36.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 394.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 16.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 33.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.8 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 14.1 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.33
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 27.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 22.7 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 21.8 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.76
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99