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Occurrence record: invertebrates:E39178

Preserved specimen of Mactra (Mactra) pura Reeve, 1854 | Pure Trough Shell recorded on 2009-04-09
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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 Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "invertebrates"
Catalog number E39178
Occurrence ID TMAG: E39178
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by S.J. Grove  
Collector S.J. Grove
Individual count 3
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [By hand]
Dataset name / Survey name [S.J. Grove Tasmanian seashells collection]
Occurrence remarks shore-based record
Date identified 2017-08-14
Supplied as 14/08/2017

Event

Dataset name / Survey name S.J. Grove Tasmanian seashells collection  
Occurrence date 2009-04-09
Supplied date "9/04/2009"
Sampling protocol By hand  
End day of year 99
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 99

Taxonomy

Scientific name Mactra (Mactra) pura
Original name usage Mactra pura
Identified to rank species
Common name Pure Trough Shell
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Cardiida
Supplied as "Venerida"
Family Mactridae
Genus Mactra
Species Mactra pura
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Reeve, 1854
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Latitude -40.2148
Supplied as: "-40.2148"
Longitude 148.03
Supplied as: "148.03"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Verbatim locality Flinders Island: Fotheringate Beach: southern end
Coordinate precision 1.0e-04
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Mactra pura

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Flinders
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Southeast Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 North
    NRM Regions 2017 North NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 North NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Flinders
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Representative Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Body areas (updated 24th March 2026) Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Heathlands
    Vegetation types - present Heathlands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 6050.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1467.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 717.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 216.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 6.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 143.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 20.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 145.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 19.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 217.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.6 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 13.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.4 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.3 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.46 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.98
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 17.3 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.3 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.71
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0