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Occurrence record: Fish:S.10016-002

Preserved specimen of Opistognathus darwiniensis Macleay, 1878 | Darwin Jawfish recorded on 1981-10-18
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Fish"
Catalog number S.10016-002
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Fish:S.10016_002
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by H.K. Larson  
Identified date 1981
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1981

Event

Occurrence date 1981-10-18
Supplied as year:1981  month:10  day:18 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Opistognathus darwiniensis
Identified to rank species
Common name Darwin Jawfish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Opistognathidae
Genus Opistognathus
Species Opistognathus darwiniensis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Macleay, 1878
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality East Side Coral Bay, Cobourg Peninsula
Latitude -11.183
Supplied as: "-11.183"
Longitude 132.067
Supplied as: "132.067"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Garig Gunak Barlu
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Garig Gunak Barlu
    Directory of Important Wetlands Cobourg Peninsula System
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Cobourg
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) ARAFURA
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Indigenous managed, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Rainforest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Rainforests and vine thickets
    Vegetation types - present Rainforest and vine thickets

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1326.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 10.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 110.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 435.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 76.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 872.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 21.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 12.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 12.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 20.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.6 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.58 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.48
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 33.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.1 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.4 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 27.475 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0