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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:J8938

Preserved specimen of Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) | European Shore Crab recorded on 1972-02-16
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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 J8938
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:J8938
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet
Identified by S W. Gunn  
Identified date 1984
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
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
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Date identified 1984

Event

Occurrence date 1972-02-16
Supplied date "1972-02-16T00:00:00\1972-02-16T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Arthropoda | Crustacea | Multicrustacea | Malacostraca | Eumalacostraca | Eucarida | Decapoda | Pleocyemata | Brachyura | Portunidae | Carcininae
Scientific name Carcinus maenas
Supplied scientific name "Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Identified to rank species
Common name European Shore Crab
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Decapoda
Family Carcinidae
Supplied as "Portunidae"
Genus Carcinus
Species Carcinus maenas
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality South Beach Rd, Somers, Western Port
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 145.17
Supplied as: "145.17"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality South Beach Rd, Somers, Western Port
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 4d18bceb-a483-4a68-8153-adca8c601f52
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.17
    Related records
    Record UUID ebc56e82-aedc-41ee-ab72-e2a6523d6d8d
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.17

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.120833 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Elevation 23.0 m