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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:J43978

Preserved specimen of Biffarius limosus (Poore, 1975) | ghost shrimp recorded on 1995-04-03
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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 Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number J43978
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:J43978
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|formalin 4%, buffered with borax|ethanol 70%
Identified by Simon P. Heislers  
Identified date 1996
Collector 1.  Museum Victoria   2.  Museums Victoria   3.  Heislers, P. Simon   4.  Museum Victoria  
Supplied as "Dr Robin S. Wilson - Museum Victoria | Dr Genefor Walker-Smith - Museums Victoria | Simon P. Heislers - Museum Victoria"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 7
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Field Number PPBES-4 304 1
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [Smith-McIntyre grab]
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Dataset / Survey name [PPBES-4]
Date identified 1996

Event

Dataset / Survey name PPBES-4  
Event ID PPBES-4 304 1
Field Number PPBES-4 304 1
Occurrence date 1995-04-03
Supplied date "1995-04-03T00:00:00\1995-04-03T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol Smith-McIntyre grab  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Arthropoda | Crustacea | Multicrustacea | Malacostraca | Eumalacostraca | Eucarida | Decapoda | Pleocyemata | Axiidea | Callianassidae
Scientific name Biffarius limosus
Supplied scientific name "Biffarius limosus (Poore, 1975)"
Identified to rank species
Common name ghost shrimp
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Callianassidae
Genus Biffarius
Species Biffarius limosus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Poore, 1975)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Port Phillip Bay, central muddy region
Latitude -38.0383
Supplied as: "-38.0383"
Longitude 144.802
Supplied as: "144.802"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Port Phillip Bay, central muddy region
Minimum depth in metres 18
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Location ID PPBES-4 304 1

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID b4fd810a-3a80-4e27-8f2f-6f9281e1eb54
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Biffarius limosus (Poore, 1975)
    Coordinates -38.0383,144.802
    Related records
    Record UUID e06894eb-4d44-4f97-8486-aa89a584d0f6
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Biffarius limosus (Poore, 1975)
    Coordinates -38.0383,144.802

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)