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Occurrence record: Herpetology:D49896

Preserved specimen of Demansia vestigiata (De Vis, 1884) | Lesser Black Whipsnake recorded on 1977-10-17
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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 Herpetology Collection
Supplied collection code "Herpetology"
Catalog number D49896
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Herpetology:PreservedSpecimen:D49896
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Spirit|Wet
Identified by Dr Glenn Shea - Australian Museum  
Collector 1.  Coventry, A.J.   2.  Museum Victoria  
Supplied as "A J. Coventry - Museum Victoria"
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
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Associated records ASSOCIATED

Event

Occurrence date 1977-10-17
Supplied date "1977-10-17T00:00:00\1977-10-17T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Reptilia | Lepidosauria | Squamata | Ophidia serpentes | Xenophidia colubroidea caenophidia | Elapidae
Scientific name Demansia vestigiata
Supplied scientific name "Demansia vestigiatus (De Vis, 1884)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Lesser Black Whipsnake
Supplied common name "Black Whipsnake"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Family Elapidae
Genus Demansia
Species Demansia vestigiata
Name match metric fuzzyMatch
Scientific name authorship (De Vis, 1884)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Papua New Guinea
Country Papua New Guinea
Locality Gulf Province, Aramia River, Awaba
Latitude -8.02
Supplied as: "-8.02"
Longitude 142.75
Supplied as: "142.75"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Gulf Province, Aramia River, Awaba
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Website - www.world-airport-codes.com
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code PG

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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 d63c3e38-47b8-41d2-a9bb-350cca921998
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Demansia vestigiatus (De Vis, 1884)
    Coordinates -8.02,142.75
    Related records
    Record UUID e15efdbb-2639-4f84-aa65-a10e11cf964e
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Demansia vestigiatus (De Vis, 1884)
    Coordinates -8.02,142.75

    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 26.741667 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 74.0 %