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Occurrence record: Fishes:I30331

Preserved specimen of Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 | Yellowmask Surgeonfish recorded on 1996-04-01
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Fishes
Supplied collection code "Fishes"
Catalog number I30331
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Fishes:I30331
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Drum
Identified by J W Johnson  
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [Spear]

Event

Occurrence date 1996-04-01
Sampling protocol Spear  
Verbatim event date 01 Apr 1996
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Acanthurus xanthopterus
Identified to rank species
Common name Yellowmask Surgeonfish
Supplied common name "Sturgeonfish"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Acanthuridae
Genus Acanthurus
Species Acanthurus xanthopterus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Valenciennes, 1835
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Palm Beach Reef, Gold Coast
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -28.116667
Supplied as: "-28.116667"
Longitude 153.5
Supplied as: "153.5"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 28° 7' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 30' East

Additional properties

object id FI30331

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid Warning
    First of the month Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

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

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 88889.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2854.0 frequency