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Occurrence record: Malacology:C.383967

Preserved specimen of Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885) | Ovalbone Cuttlefish recorded on 1974-12-03
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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 Malacology Collection
Supplied collection code "Malacology"
Catalog number C.383967
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:10260713,urn:catalog:AM:Malacology:C.383967"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Miller, Ms Alison Clair - Australian Museum - Malacology  
Collector W.F. Ponder
Specimen type cited
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2025-01-17
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: alisonm 06/Sep/2000

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:10027085
Identification remarks id extracted from texpress reg db. entered by: alisonm 06/Sep/2000
Occurrence date 1974-12-03
Supplied date "1974-12-03/1974-12-03"
End day of year 337
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 337

Taxonomy

Scientific name Acanthosepion ellipticum
Supplied scientific name "Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Ovalbone Cuttlefish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
Genus Acanthosepion
Species Acanthosepion ellipticum
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Acanthosepion ellipticum (Hoyle, 1885)
Scientific name authorship (Hoyle, 1885)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Hoyle, 1885)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Latitude -14.683333
Supplied as: "-14.683333"
Longitude 145.45
Supplied as: "145.45"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality GBR, Lizard Is, N side Palfrey Is
Location remarks [MAL# 741 C] Australia, Queensland, GBR, Lizard Is, N side Palfrey Is (14° 41' 00" S, 145° 27' 00" E) 03/12/1974 - 03/12/1974, Ponder, W F(Collector), Field Collected - Aquatic
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 14° 41' 00" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145° 27' 00" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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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) Ribbons
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Cape York
    NRM Regions 2017 Cape York
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Cape York
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Cape York
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Ribbons
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Cape York Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Leichhardt
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 COOK SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) COOK
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Other grasslands,herblands, sedgelands and rushlands
    Vegetation types - present Other grasslands, herblands, sedgelands and rushlands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 101299.0 frequency
    Species Richness 7590.0 frequency
    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 1432.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 60.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 8.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 40.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 97.73859 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 778.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 312.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 888.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 25.7375 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 10.5 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 20.6 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 23.3 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 5.491667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 23.566668 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 52.301586 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 180.6192
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 31.1 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 27.75 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 27.5 °C
    Elevation 20.0 m