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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.171675

Preserved specimen of Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852 | Gloomy Octopus recorded on 1972-01-27
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.171675
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10085089","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.171675"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.171675
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified date 1992
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1992
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "good";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10043164
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "good";
Occurrence date 1972-01-27
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Octopus tetricus
Supplied scientific name "Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852"
Identified to rank species
Common name Gloomy Octopus
Supplied common name "Common Sydney Octopus"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Octopus
Species Octopus tetricus
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852
Scientific name authorship Gould, 1852
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Gould, 1852

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Latitude -32.266
Supplied as: "-32.266"
Longitude 115.683
Supplied as: "115.683"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Point Peron, 30ml S of Perth
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 1278 C] Australia, Western Australia, Point Peron, 30ml S of Perth (32° 16' 00" S, 115° 41' 00" E) 27/01/1972 - 27/01/1972, W.F.& J.M.Ponder(Collector)";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 32° 16' 0" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 115° 41' 0" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2016/11/29
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2016/11/29
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Data quality tests

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    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Shoalwater Islands
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Shoalwater Islands
    NRM Regions 2010 Perth
    NRM Regions 2017 Swan Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Swan Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Leeuwin-Naturaliste
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF ROCKINGHAM
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Other shrublands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 736.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 389.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 38.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 85.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 43.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 36.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 416.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 38.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 18.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 19.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 14.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 22.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.22
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 29.5 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 23.2 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 14.6 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.52
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0