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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F80421

Preserved specimen of Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885) | Ovalbone Cuttlefish
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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 Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F80421
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F80421
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Amanda L. Reid  
Collector Northern Fisheries Research Centre - Queensland
Sex Unknown
Individual count 7
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
Date identified 1996

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Coleoidea | Sepiida | Sepiidae
Scientific name Acanthosepion ellipticum
Supplied scientific name "Sepia elliptica Hoyle, 1885"
Identified to rank species
Common name Ovalbone Cuttlefish
Supplied common name "Cuttlefish"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Acanthosepion
Supplied as "Sepia"
Species Acanthosepion ellipticum
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Hoyle, 1885)
Supplied as Hoyle, 1885
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Gulf of carpentaria
Latitude -17.57
Supplied as: "-17.57"
Longitude 139.9
Supplied as: "139.9"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Gulf of carpentaria
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arafura Sea Gulf of Carpenteria
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Karumba-Nassau
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northern Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Southern Gulf
    NRM Regions 2017 Southern Gulf
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Southern Gulf
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Southern Gulf
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Karumba-Nassau
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Carpentaria Gulf Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Kennedy
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) TRAEGER

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 4.0 frequency
    Species Richness 3.0 frequency