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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F53223

Preserved specimen of Callistoctopus bunurong (Stranks, 1990) | Southern White-spot Octopus recorded on 1977-12-13
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F53223
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F53223
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by T N. Stranks  
Identified date 1990
Collector Department of Invertebrate Zoology  
Supplied as "Department of Invertebrate Zoology"
Specimen type HOLOTYPE  
Supplied as "Holotype"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 1990

Event

Occurrence date 1977-12-13
Supplied date "1977-12-13T00:00:00\1977-12-13T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Octopoda | Incirrata | Octopodidae
Scientific name Callistoctopus bunurong
Supplied scientific name "Octopus bunurong Stranks, 1990"
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern White-spot Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Callistoctopus
Supplied as "Octopus"
Species Callistoctopus bunurong
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Stranks, 1990)
Supplied as Stranks, 1990
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Townsends Point
Latitude -38.82
Supplied as: "-38.82"
Longitude 146.27
Supplied as: "146.27"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Townsends Point
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 South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Park
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Park
    Directory of Important Wetlands Corner Inlet
    NRM Regions 2010 West Gippsland
    NRM Regions 2017 West Gippsland
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 West Gippsland
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt woodlands
    Vegetation types - present Eucalyptus woodlands