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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:CS4025

Human observation of Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) | Blue Whale
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number CS4025
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:575324"]
Record type Human observation
Supplied basis "HumanObservation"
License CC-BY
Type Event
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Country conservation Endangered
Occurrence remarks Sighting Note: photos given to CK by R. Patterson. No other information. Images at South Australian Museum: yes
State conservation Endangered

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:210041
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Balaenoptera musculus
Supplied scientific name "Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Blue Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Balaenopteridae
Genus Balaenoptera
Species Balaenoptera musculus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Latitude -38.0
Supplied as: "-38"
Longitude 148.0
Supplied as: "148"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality (= East coast ?)
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 148 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 Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Twofold Shelf