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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.72308

Preserved specimen of Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758) | Reef Box Crab recorded on 1976-07-06
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number P.72308
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1186404","urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.72308"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:P.72308
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Lee, T. R.C.  
Collector 1.  Brown, E. Diane   2.  Australian Museum  
Supplied as "Brown, Diane E. - Australian Museum"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2005-03
Supplied as 2005-3

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1035942
Occurrence date 1976-07-06
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Calappa hepatica
Supplied scientific name "Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Reef Box Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Supplied as "Crustacea"
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Calappidae
Genus Calappa
Species Calappa hepatica
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Calappa hepatica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -9.883
Supplied as: "-9.883"
Longitude 142.75
Supplied as: "142.75"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Torres Strait, Yam Island
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Australia, Queensland, Torres Strait, Yam Island (9° 53' S, 142° 45' E) 06/07/1976 - 06/07/1976";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 9° 53' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 142° 45' E

Additional properties

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dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2011/11/23
dcterms type PhysicalObject

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Torres Strait & far Northern GBR
    NRM Regions 2010 Torres Strait
    NRM Regions 2017 Torres Strait
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Torres Strait
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Torres Strait
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 TORRES SHIRE
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK