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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F26075

Preserved specimen of Tectus (Tectus) niloticus (Linnaeus, 1767) | Button Shell
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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 F26075
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F26075
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry
Sex Unknown
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

Event

Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Mollusca | Conchifera | Visceroconcha | Gastropoda | Orthogastropoda | Vetigastropoda | Trochoidea | Trochidae
Scientific name Tectus (Tectus) niloticus
Supplied scientific name "Trochus niloticus Linnaeus, 1767"
Identified to rank species
Common name Button Shell
Supplied common name "Commercial Top Shell"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Vetigastropoda
Family Trochidae
Genus Tectus
Supplied as "Trochus"
Species Tectus niloticus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1767)
Supplied as Linnaeus, 1767
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Queensland
Locality Hook Reef
Latitude -19.83
Supplied as: "-19.83"
Longitude 149.22
Supplied as: "149.22"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Hook Reef
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial false
Biome MARINE
Marine true
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) Pompey-Swains
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Northeast Shelf Province
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Marine NRM
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pompey-Swains
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Northern Queensland Region
    Political
    Electorates March 2025 Dawson
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 WHITSUNDAY REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BURDEKIN

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 60.0 frequency
    Species Richness 45.0 frequency