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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P059937

Preserved specimen of Chama pulchella Reeve, 1846 | Beautiful Jewel Box recorded on 1996-07-18
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P059937
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P059937
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2013

Event

Occurrence date 1996-07-18
Supplied as year:1996  month:7  day:18 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Chama pulchella
Identified to rank species
Common name Beautiful Jewel Box
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Family Chamidae
Genus Chama
Species Chama pulchella
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Reeve, 1846
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Locality Cape Wirawowoi, immediately north of Nhulunbuy, NE. coast of Gove Peninsula, NW. coast of Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -12.15862
Supplied as: "-12.15862"
Longitude 136.78193
Supplied as: "136.78193"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
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 Arnhem Land
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Dhimurru
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Dhimurru
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Groote
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Northern Territory
    Indigenous Protected Areas 2013 Dhimurru
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Nhulunbuy
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NHULUNBUY
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous owned, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Medium Open
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1381.6666 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 31.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 101.666664 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 507.66666 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 70.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 827.6667 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 20.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.166668 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 13.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 19.766666 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 24.866667 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.6 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.8 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.57666665 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.54
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.933334 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.266666 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 26.979166 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0