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Occurrence record: Ichthyology:A1871

Preserved specimen of Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) | Oceanic Whitetip Shark recorded on 1981-03-09
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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 Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number A1871
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ichthyology:PreservedSpecimen:A1871
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Spirit specimen|Wet|formalin 10%|ethanol 70%
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
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 MFG 78
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [trawl, 63 m otter]

Event

Event ID MFG 78
Field Number MFG 78
Occurrence date 1981-03-09
Supplied date "1981-03-09T14:25:00\1981-03-09T15:15:00"
Sampling protocol trawl, 63 m otter  
Date precision DAY
Event time 14:25:00\15:15:00

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Craniata | Gnathostomata | Chondrichthyes | Elasmobranchii | Carcharhiniformes | Carcharhinidae
Scientific name Carcharhinus longimanus
Supplied scientific name "Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Chondrichthyes
Order Carcharhiniformes
Family Carcharhinidae
Genus Carcharhinus
Species Carcharhinus longimanus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Poey, 1861)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Western Australia
Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Locality Northwest Shelf, NW of Dampier
Latitude -20.17
Supplied as: "-20.17"
Longitude 116.07
Supplied as: "116.07"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Northwest Shelf, NW of Dampier
Minimum depth in metres 60
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol original
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Ningaloo Reef & NW Western Australia
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pilbarra (offshore)
    Exclusive Economic Zone Exclusive Economic Zone