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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:D38806

Preserved specimen of Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847) | Southern Mussel
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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 Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number D38806
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:712766"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet Specimen
Identified by Whitehead, J  
Individual count 8
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:170938
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Velesunio ambiguus
Supplied scientific name "Velesunio ambiguus (Philippi, 1847)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Mussel
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Unionida
Family Hyriidae
Genus Velesunio
Species Velesunio ambiguus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Philippi, 1847)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -35.555451
Supplied as: "-35.555451"
Longitude 135.614215
Supplied as: "135.614215"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Victor Harbor
Coordinate precision 0.000001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 5000.0
Terrestrial false
Verbatim latitude 35 33 20 S
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 135 36 51 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Eyre
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone