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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:A2779

Preserved specimen of Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) | Long-finned Pilot Whale
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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 Vertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number A2779
Occurrence ID urn:catalog:TMAG:Mammalogy:A2779
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment)
Sex Female
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Globicephala melas
Identified to rank species
Common name Long-finned Pilot Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Globicephala
Species Globicephala melas
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Traill, 1809)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Stanley
Latitude -40.80286
Supplied as: "-40.80286"
Longitude 145.20181
Supplied as: "145.20181"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 50
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 50.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Boags
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bass Strait Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Boags
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Tasmania
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 SMITHTON-BURNIE COAST
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CIRCULAR HEAD COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MURCHISON
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Low Closed Forests and Tall Closed Shrublands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Low closed forest or tall closed shrublands (including Acacia, Melaleuca and Banksia)
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Low closed forests and closed shrublands
    Vegetation types - present Low closed forest and tall closed shrubland

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 3416.0 frequency
    Species Richness 856.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 969.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 341.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 141.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 33.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 141.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 31.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 342.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 51.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.9 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.6 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 16.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.93
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.6 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.6 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 1053.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 364.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 41.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 149.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 33.429005 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 149.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 133.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 366.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 12.9375 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 16.5 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 5.3 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 9.683333 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 8.575 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 16.416666 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 51.9697 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 271.74625
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 21.8 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 16.416666 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 9.95 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 50.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.78
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0