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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.449398

Preserved specimen of Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Knife Finger Oyster recorded on 1928-09
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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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.449398
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10444743","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.449398"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.449398
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Kerslake, J  
Collector Ward, Mel  
Supplied as "Ward, Mel"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1980
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Nov/2005";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10046915
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 09/Nov/2005";
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1928, Month: 9, Day:
Supplied date "1928-09"
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Ensiculus cultellus
Supplied scientific name "Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Knife Finger Oyster
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Adapedonta
Family Pharidae
Genus Ensiculus
Species Ensiculus cultellus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -10.75
Supplied as: "-10.75"
Longitude 142.616
Supplied as: "142.616"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Albany Passage, Cape York Peninsula
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 546 C] Australia, Queensland, Albany Passage, Cape York Peninsula (10° 45' 00" S, 142° 37' 00" E) /09/1928 - /09/1928, Ward, Mel(Collector), Dredged.";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 10° 45' 0" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 142° 37' 0" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2015/3/4
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2015/3/4
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 1km-10km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    NRM Regions 2010 Cape York
    NRM Regions 2017 Cape York
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Cape York
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions East Cape York
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TORRES SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1741.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 41.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 26.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 108.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 562.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 109.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1120.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.5
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 26.75 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 10.15 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 21.650002 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 6.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.75 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.62 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.36
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.75 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 27.95 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.349998 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.56
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0