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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F101628

Preserved specimen of Abdopus aculeatus (d'Orbigny, 1834) | octopus recorded on 1999-03-18
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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 F101628
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F101628
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Mark D. Norman - Museums Victoria  
Collector Mark D. Norman - Museums Victoria | M Steer
Sex Male
Individual count 1
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 2004

Event

Occurrence date 1999-03-18
Supplied date "1999-03-18T16:00:00\1999-03-18T00:00:00"
End day of year 77
Date precision DAY
Event time 16:00:00
Start day of year 77

Taxonomy

Higher classification Mollusca | Cephalopoda | Octopoda | Octopodidae
Scientific name Abdopus aculeatus
Supplied scientific name "Octopus (Abdopus) aculeatus d'Orbigny, 1834"
Identified to rank species
Common name octopus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Genus Abdopus
Supplied as "Octopus"
Species Abdopus aculeatus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (d'Orbigny, 1834)
Supplied as d'Orbigny, 1834
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Subgenus Abdopus
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Pioneer Bay, Orpheus Island
Latitude -18.6
Supplied as: "-18.6"
Longitude 146.48
Supplied as: "146.48"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Pioneer Bay, Orpheus Island
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 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) Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Burdekin
    NRM Regions 2017 Burdekin
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Burdekin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Burdekin
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Lucinda-Mackay Coast
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Herbert
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 HINCHINBROOK SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) HINCHINBROOK

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 33477.0 frequency
    Species Richness 699.0 frequency