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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F323668

Preserved specimen of Brachidontes erosus (Lamarck, 1819) | Rough Beaked Mussel recorded on 1983-12-10
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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 F323668
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F323668
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Shell|dry
Collector Maxwell P. Marrow
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 1983-12-10
Supplied date "1983-12-10T00:00:00\1983-12-10T00:00:00"
End day of year 344
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 344

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Conchifera | Bivalvia | Pteriomorphia | Mytiloida | Mytilidae
Scientific name Brachidontes erosus
Supplied scientific name "Brachidontes (Hormomya) erosa (Lamarck, 1819)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Rough Beaked Mussel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Mytilida
Supplied as "Mytiloida"
Family Mytilidae
Genus Brachidontes
Species Brachidontes erosus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1819)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Subgenus Hormomya
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Locality Barker Rocks, Yorke Peninsula
Latitude -34.7122
Supplied as: "-34.7122"
Longitude 137.486
Supplied as: "137.486"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Barker Rocks, Yorke Peninsula
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Composite Gazetteer of Australia
Georeference protocol Composite Gazetteer of Australia
Terrestrial true
Georeferenced date 2025-06-17T00:00
Supplied as 2025-06-17T00:00:00
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Spencer Gulf
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern and Yorke
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern and Yorke
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Northern and Yorke
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern and Yorke
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Spencer Gulf
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Narungga Nation Determination ILUA
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Greater South Australia
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Other special rights, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Mallee woodlands and shrublands
    Vegetation types - present Mallee woodlands and shrublands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1892.0 frequency
    Species Richness 573.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 362.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 151.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 39.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 50.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 40.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 152.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.9 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 41.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 26.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.8 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.1 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.5 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.29
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 28.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 21.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.1 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 49.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.32
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.7
    Elevation 4.0 m