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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:CS1398

Human observation of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale recorded on 1993-01-12
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number CS1398
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:572697"]
Record type Human observation
Supplied basis "HumanObservation"
Individual count 2
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Occurrence remarks How observed: from boat Social group: grouped Images at South Australian Museum: no

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:207986
Occurrence date 1993-01-12
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Orcinus orca
Supplied scientific name "Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -33.0
Supplied as: "-33.00"
Longitude 134.2
Supplied as: "134.20"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Sceale Bay
Coordinate precision 0.01
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 33 00 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 134 12 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine West Coast Bays
    CAPAD 2020 Marine West Coast Bays
    NRM Regions 2010 Eyre Peninsula
    NRM Regions 2017 Eyre Peninsula
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Eyre Peninsula
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Eyre
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 384.2857 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 175.14285 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 40.285713 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 57.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 46.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 175.42857 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.714287 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 37.714287
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 26.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.314285 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.77143 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.771429 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.385714 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.1842858
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 28.614286 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 21.671429 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.942857 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.27142859
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.6571429