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Occurrence record: Mollusc:P055798

Preserved specimen of Lyncina carneola (Linnaeus, 1758) | Purple Mouthed Cowry recorded on 2015-11-03
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Mollusc"
Catalog number P055798
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Mollusc:P055798
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal
Identified by R.C. Willan  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2015

Event

Occurrence date 2015-11-03
Supplied as year:2015  month:11  day:3 
End day of year 307
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 307

Taxonomy

Scientific name Lyncina carneola
Identified to rank species
Common name Purple Mouthed Cowry
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Family Cypraeidae
Genus Lyncina
Species Lyncina carneola
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
Locality Flinders Shoals, central Arafura Sea, 230 km NW. of northern coast of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia.
Latitude -9.71967
Supplied as: "-9.71967"
Longitude 129.8
Supplied as: "129.8"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS 84"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Timor Transition
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1.0 frequency