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Occurrence record: Ornithology:BE7720

Preserved specimen of Turnix (Ortygodes) maculosus melanotus (Gould, 1837) | Australian Red-backed Button-quail
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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 BE7720
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ornithology:PreservedSpecimen:BE7720
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Egg|Dry
Collector 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
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1958, Month: 2, Day:
Supplied as year:1958  month:2 
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Aves | Turniciformes | Turnicidae
Scientific name Turnix (Ortygodes) maculosus melanotus
Supplied scientific name "Turnix maculosa melanota"
Identified to rank subspecies
Common name Australian Red-backed Button-quail
Supplied common name "Red-backed Button-quail"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Turniciformes
Family Turnicidae
Genus Turnix
Species Turnix maculosus
Name match metric fuzzyMatch
Infraspecific epithet melanota
Subspecies Turnix (Ortygodes) maculosus melanotus
Scientific name authorship (Gould, 1837)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -17.65
Supplied as: "-17.65"
Longitude 146.03
Supplied as: "146.03"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Gazetteer
Municipality Sandy Pocket
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) Wet Tropics
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) Innisfail
    NRM Regions 2010 Wet Tropics
    NRM Regions 2017 Wet Tropics
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Wet Tropics
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Wet Tropics
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Regions Wet Tropics
    IBRA 7 Subregions Innisfail
    Hydrology
    Australian Drainage Divisions 2021 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 North East Coast
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 JOHNSTONE RIVER
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Areas 2021 Innisfail - Johnstone
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Ma:Mu Cassowary Coast Regional Council Area ILUA
    Indigenous Locations 2021 Johnstone
    Indigenous Regions 2021 Cairns - Atherton
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021 Kennedy
    Electorates March 2025 Kennedy
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Ma:Mu Cassowary Coast Regional Council Area ILUA
    Local Government Areas 2011 Cassowary Coast (R)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Johnstone
    Local Government Areas 2023 Cassowary Coast
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CASSOWARY COAST REGIONAL
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 44
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 2033
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) REST OF QLD
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) JOHNSTONE
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) INNISFAIL - CASSOWARY COAST
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) CAIRNS
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) KENNEDY
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) INNISFAIL - JOHNSTONE
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) JOHNSTONE
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) CAIRNS - ATHERTON
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Outer Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) HILL
    PSMA States (2016) QUEENSLAND
    State Electoral Divisions 2022 Hill
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Social
    Australia 2021 Australia
    Destination Zones 2021 Johnstone
    Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021 Rest of Qld
    Postal Areas 2021 4871
    Remoteness Areas 2021 Outer Regional Australia
    States and Territories 2021 Queensland
    Statistical Areas Level 2 Johnstone
    Statistical Areas Level 3 Innisfail - Cassowary Coast
    Statistical Areas Level 4 Cairns
    Tourism Regions 2021 Tropical North Queensland
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Other special rights, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Rainforests and vine thickets
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 2832.0 frequency
    Species Richness 466.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 3336.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 350.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 258.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 71.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 1428.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 160.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 1686.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 19.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 23.8 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 15.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 20.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 22.1 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.91
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 31.3 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 26.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 26.3 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 3365.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 281.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 77.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 281.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 82.71728 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 1471.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 716.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 1925.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 24.004168 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 15.900001 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 15.3 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 20.216667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 8.325 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 20.216667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 52.358486 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 275.041
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 31.2 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 26.966667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 26.766666 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 52.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.93
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 15.0 m