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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P008209

Preserved specimen of Musculus (Modiolarca) cumingianus (Reeve, 1857) | Three-area Mussel
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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 P008209
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P008209
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 1995

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1993, Month: 10, Day:
Supplied as year:1993  month:10 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Musculus (Modiolarca) cumingianus
Supplied scientific name "Musculus cumingianus"
Identified to rank species
Common name Three-area Mussel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Mytilida
Family Mytilidae
Genus Musculus
Species Musculus cumingianus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Reeve, 1857)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
Locality rocky shoal 30 km due west of Bathurst Island, Timor Sea, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -11.65
Supplied as: "-11.65"
Longitude 129.8
Supplied as: "129.8"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Darwin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bonaparte Gulf
    Marine
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA