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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:A2279

Preserved specimen of Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) | Long-finned Pilot Whale
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Vertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number A2279
Occurrence ID urn:catalog:TMAG:Mammalogy:A2279
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Rosemary Gales (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment)
Sex Male
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Globicephala melas
Identified to rank species
Common name Long-finned Pilot Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Supplied as "Cetacea"
Family Delphinidae
Genus Globicephala
Species Globicephala melas
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Traill, 1809)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Marion Bay
Latitude -42.84421
Supplied as: "-42.84421"
Longitude 147.8893
Supplied as: "147.8893"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 50
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 50.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bruny
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmanian Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bruny
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Tasman
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TASMAN COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) LYONS
    World Country Boundaries Australia

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 13780.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1316.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 702.6 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 194.8 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 159.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 12.4 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 167.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 17.2 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 198.6 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.46 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 48.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.16 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.52 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.88 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.12 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.26 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 12.76 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.514 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.934
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.96 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.96 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.74 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 52.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.754
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.994