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Occurrence record: Birds:B31622

Preserved specimen of Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | Southern Cassowary recorded on 1998-01-04
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Birds"
Catalog number B31622
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B31622
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skin; tissues (loans)
Sex male
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B31622
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1998-01-04
Verbatim event date 04JAN1998
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Casuarius casuarius
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Cassowary
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Struthioniformes
Family Casuariidae
Genus Casuarius
Species Casuarius casuarius
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality ETTY BAY, E OF INNISFAIL
Latitude -17.55
Supplied as: "-17.55"
Longitude 146.0833
Supplied as: "146.0833"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality ETTY BAY, E OF INNISFAIL
Water body not applicable
Island not applicable
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    CONTINENT_COORDINATE_MISMATCH Warning
    First of the year Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 1f6a654f-8128-49d2-9523-ddf3ebeb79eb
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.55,146.0833
    Related records
    Record UUID c58bdbbb-6ad6-409a-bb9b-263f1cbdc67d
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.55,146.0833
    Record UUID 69b81537-6456-44ba-a976-6b5aa9c67ac4
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.55,146.0833
    Record UUID 9255708d-6608-47b0-b9f1-71254d33bfc2
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.55,146.0833
    Record UUID 392a8bce-05a2-45d9-851c-f5f97d0f733a
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.55,146.0833
    Record UUID d08dae58-d7fa-440b-9d3f-8fdf186bc262
    Data Resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Casuarius casuarius
    Coordinates -17.55,146.0833

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Townsville Town Common
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Townsville Town Common
    NRM Regions 2010 Burdekin
    NRM Regions 2017 Burdekin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burdekin
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Brigalow Belt North
    IBRA 7 Regions Brigalow Belt North
    IBRA 7 Subregions Townsville Plains
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 ROSS RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Ma:Mu Cassowary Coast Regional Council Area ILUA
    Local Government Areas 2011 Cassowary Coast (R)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Pallarenda-Shelley Beach
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TOWNSVILLE CITY
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Mamu People
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 241
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 5915
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) BELGIAN GARDENS - PALLARENDA
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) TOWNSVILLE
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) TOWNSVILLE
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) KENNEDY
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) TOWNSVILLE
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) TOWNSVILLE
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) TOWNSVILLE - MACKAY
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) TOWNSVILLE
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Acacia
    Forests of Australia 2018B Mangrove
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Mangroves
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Mangroves
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Mangroves,tidal mudflats,samphires and bare areas,claypan,sand,rock,salt lakes,lagoons,lakes
    Vegetation types - present Mangroves

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1137.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 53.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 47.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 102.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 698.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 81.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 720.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 24.3 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 20.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.6 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.02
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.3 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 27.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.5 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.75 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 52.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.56
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99