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Occurrence record: Ornithology:B31880

Preserved specimen of Thalasseus bergii (Lichtenstein, 1823) | Crested Tern recorded on 1959-08-09
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Ornithology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ornithology"
Catalog number B31880
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ornithology:PreservedSpecimen:B31880
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skeleton|Dry
Collector Beauglehole, H.M.  
Supplied as "H M. Beauglehole"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Occurrence date 1959-08-09
Supplied date "1959-08-09T00:00:00\1959-08-09T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae
Scientific name Thalasseus bergii
Supplied scientific name "Sterna bergii cristata"
Identified to rank species
Supplied as "Subspecies"
Common name Crested Tern
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes
Family Laridae
Genus Thalasseus
Supplied as "Sterna"
Species Thalasseus bergii
Name match metric higherMatch
Infraspecific epithet cristata
Scientific name authorship (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Discovery Bay, between Swan Lake and Cape Bridgewater
Latitude -38.28
Supplied as: "-38.28"
Longitude 141.33
Supplied as: "141.33"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Discovery Bay, between Swan Lake and Cape Bridgewater
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol AMG conversion, collection or Gazetteer
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Glenelg Hopkins
    NRM Regions 2017 Glenelg Hopkins
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Glenelg Hopkins
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)