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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:H3428

Preserved specimen of Opisthoteuthis persephone Berry, 1918 | Octopus recorded on 1989-04-25
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number H3428
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:793073"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet Specimen
Collector CSIRO
Individual count 1
License CC-BY
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [demersal trawl]

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:241114
Occurrence date 1989-04-25
Supplied date "25/04/1989"
Sampling protocol demersal trawl  
End day of year 115
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 115

Taxonomy

Scientific name Opisthoteuthis persephone
Supplied scientific name "Opisthoteuthis persephone Berry, 1918"
Identified to rank species
Common name Octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Opisthoteuthidae
Genus Opisthoteuthis
Species Opisthoteuthis persephone
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Berry, 1918
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality 33 NM NE Cape Tourville
Latitude -41.6175
Supplied as: "-41.6175"
Longitude 148.8083
Supplied as: "148.8083"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 41 37 03 S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 148 48 30 E

Additional properties

right holder Museum Board of South Australia
source file sam-ala-export-2024-12-18.csv

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmania Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmania Province
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 84.0 frequency
    Species Richness 68.0 frequency