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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:M.21018

Preserved specimen of Phalanger Storr, 1780 | Mountain Cuscus recorded on 1987-04-12
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number M.21018
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:4013410","urn:catalog:AM:Mammalogy:M.21018"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Mammalogy:M.21018
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Macquarie University  
Supplied as "Flannery, Professor Tim Fridtjof - Macquarie University"
Sex Female
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:4008615
Occurrence date 1987-04-12
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Phalanger
Supplied scientific name "Phalanger carmelitae Thomas, 1898"
Identified to rank genus
Common name Mountain Cuscus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Diprotodontia
Family Phalangeridae
Genus Phalanger
Species Phalanger carmelitae
Name match metric higherMatch
Accepted name Phalanger carmelitae Thomas, 1898
Scientific name authorship Storr, 1780
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Thomas, 1898

Geospatial

Country Papua New Guinea
State or Territory West Sepik Province
Latitude -5.116
Supplied as: "-5.116"
Longitude 141.416
Supplied as: "141.416"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Mountain South of Tifalmin
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Papua New Guinea, WEST SEPIK PROVINCE, Mountain South of Tifalmin (5° 07' S, 141° 25' E) 12/04/1987 - 12/04/1987, Flannery, Professor Timothy Fridtjof - Macquarie University(Collector), Field Collected - Terrestrial";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 5° 7' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code PG
Verbatim longitude 141° 25' E

Additional properties

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dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2020/5/29
dcterms type PhysicalObject

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Political
    World Country Boundaries Papua New Guinea

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 19.754166 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 87.0 %