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Occurrence record: Birds:B21804

Preserved specimen of Papasula abbotti (Ridgway, 1893) | Abbott's Booby recorded on 1984-05-04
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian National Wildlife Collection provider for OZCAM
Institution code Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Supplied institution code "ANWC"
Collection Australian National Wildlife Collection
Supplied collection code "Birds"
Catalog number B21804
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:ANWC:Birds:B21804
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations skeleton complete
Sex female
License CC-BY
Rights holder CSIRO
Establishment means wild location
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Bibliographic citation B21804
Collection urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34932
Country conservation Endangered
Dataset / Survey name [ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)]
Dataset [urn:anwc.csiro.au:collections:4]

Event

Dataset / Survey name ANWC general pre-Nagoya (12/10/2014)  
Occurrence date 1984-05-04
Verbatim event date 04MAY1984
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Papasula abbotti
Identified to rank species
Common name Abbott's Booby
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Pelecaniformes
Family Sulidae
Genus Papasula
Species Papasula abbotti
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Ridgway, 1893)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Australian Christmas Island Territory
Locality CHRISTMAS ISLAND, INDIAN OCEAN; CO ORDINATES FOR SETTLEMENT
Latitude -10.4167
Supplied as: "-10.4167"
Longitude 105.675
Supplied as: "105.675"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality CHRISTMAS ISLAND, INDIAN OCEAN
Water body not applicable
Island Christmas Island
Island group not applicable
Location remarks confident in available location data
Coordinate precision 0.00139
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
County not applicable
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Continent Asia
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim SRS not recorded; assume WGS84 for Australia

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty confident in available location data

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    Test name Result
    Continent country mismatch Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Christmas Island
    NRM Regions 2017 Christmas Island
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 7 Regions Indian Tropical Islands
    IBRA 7 Subregions Christmas Island
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Other Territories
    Local Government Areas 2011 Unincorp. Other Territories
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 0
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 9
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) OTHER TERRITORIES
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) OTHER TERRITORIES
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) LINGIARI
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) CHRISTMAS ISLAND
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) CHRISTMAS - COCOS (KEELING) IS.
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Very Remote Australia
    PSMA States (2016) OTHER TERRITORIES
    World Country Boundaries Christmas Island

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 23.745832 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 76.0 %