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Occurrence record: Molluscs:MO19110

Preserved specimen of Staphylaea staphylaea (Linnaeus, 1758) | Grape Cowrie
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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 Molluscs
Supplied collection code "Molluscs"
Catalog number MO19110
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM:Molluscs:MO19110
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Dry
Identified by D Potter  
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Previous identifications Cypraea staphylaea
Date identified 2010-08-31
Supplied as 31 Aug 2010

Event

Verbatim event date Jan 1973
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Staphylaea staphylaea
Identified to rank species
Common name Grape Cowrie
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Hypsogastropoda
Supplied as "Littorinimorpha"
Family Cypraeidae
Genus Staphylaea
Species Staphylaea staphylaea
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Low Isles, NEQ
Latitude -16.381934
Supplied as: "-16.383333"
Longitude 145.5675106
Supplied as: "145.566667"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision 0.01667
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 16° 23' South
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 34' East

Additional properties

object id MO7096

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Wet Tropic Coast
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Wet Tropics
    NRM Regions 2017 Wet Tropics
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Wet Tropics
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Wet Tropics
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Wet Tropic Coast
    Indigenous
    2025 Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) - Dedicated Eastern Kuku Yalanji
    Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) - Dedicated Eastern Kuku Yalanji
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Queensland
    Electorates March 2025 Leichhardt
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Douglas
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DOUGLAS SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Unresolved Tenure

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 19097.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2525.0 frequency