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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.80057

Preserved specimen of Melaxinaea vitrea (Lamarck, 1819) | Granulated Dog Cockle recorded on 1958-05-28
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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.80057
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10418057","urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.80057"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Malacology:C.80057
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Lamprell, K.  
Collector Crofton, C. B.
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1992
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 15/Apr/2004";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10016228
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "Curatorial"; ecatalogue.IdeSpecimenQuality: "Good"; ecatalogue.IdeComments: "id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: ianl 15/Apr/2004";
Occurrence date 1958-05-28
End day of year 148
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 148

Taxonomy

Scientific name Melaxinaea vitrea
Supplied scientific name "Melaxinaea vitrea (Lamarck, 1819)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Granulated Dog Cockle
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Arcida
Family Glycymerididae
Genus Melaxinaea
Species Melaxinaea vitrea
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Melaxinaea vitrea (Lamarck, 1819)
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1819)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Lamarck, 1819)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -20.03527
Supplied as: "-20.03527"
Longitude 148.44527
Supplied as: "148.44527"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Gloucester Is, Bona Bay
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[MAL# 60410] Australia, Queensland, Gloucester Is, Bona Bay (20° 02' 07" S, 148° 26' 43" E) 28/05/1958 - 28/05/1958, Crofton, C B(Collector), Accession";
Coordinate precision 1e-05
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 20° 2' 7" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 148° 26' 43" E

Additional properties

dcterms:modified 2015/12/22
dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2015/12/22
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Burdekin
    NRM Regions 2017 Burdekin
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Burdekin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burdekin
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 PROSERPINE RIVER
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 WHITSUNDAY REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) WHITSUNDAY
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Medium Woodland
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt open forests
    Vegetation types - present Eucalyptus open forest

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 4671.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1212.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1076.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 77.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 62.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 86.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 572.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 65.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 612.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 19.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 24.0 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 19.7 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.8 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.04
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.3 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 27.5 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 27.3 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.59
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99
    Elevation 86.0 m