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Occurrence record: Mammals:JM20624

Preserved specimen of Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) | Humpback Whale recorded on 2013-10-19
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection Queensland Museum Mammals
Supplied collection code "Mammals"
Catalog number JM20624
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Mammals:JM20624
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Baleen
Sex Adult
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Field notes W230154/43803

Event

Occurrence date 2013-10-19
Verbatim event date 19 Oct 2013
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Megaptera novaeangliae
Identified to rank species
Common name Humpback Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Balaenopteridae
Genus Megaptera
Species Megaptera novaeangliae
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Borowski, 1781)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Moreton Island, Eastern Beach at Little Sandhills
Latitude -27.283717
Supplied as: "-27.283717"
Longitude 153.421333
Supplied as: "153.421333"
Datum EPSG:4326
Field notes W230154/43803
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 500.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 27° 17' 1.381" South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Oceania
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 25' 16.799" East

Additional properties

object id 457046

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Moreton Bay
    Directory of Important Wetlands Moreton Bay
    NRM Regions 2010 South East Queensland
    NRM Regions 2017 South East Queensland
    RAMSAR wetland regions Moreton Bay
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South East Queensland
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1399.5 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 250.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 176.75 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 36.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 424.75 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 43.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 488.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 26.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 20.975 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.425 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 11.975 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 16.675001 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.225 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.375 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.44 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.08
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 28.4 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 24.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 22.05 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 20.254168 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.8525
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0