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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:C37350-2

Preserved specimen of Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) | Humpback Whale recorded on 2011-10-24
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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 Mammalogy Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number C37350-2
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Mammalogy:PreservedSpecimen:C37350-2
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skull|Dry
Collector Museum Victoria  
Supplied as "Mr Peter Swinkels - Museum Victoria | et al"
Sex Male
Individual count 1
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
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
Sampling protocol [salvage]
Associated records ASSOCIATED
State conservation Critically Endangered

Event

Occurrence date 2011-10-24
Supplied date "2011-10-24T00:00:00\2011-10-26T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol salvage  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Mammalia | Cetacea | Mysticeti | Balaenopteridae
Scientific name Megaptera novaeangliae
Supplied scientific name "Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781"
Identified to rank species
Common name Humpback Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Balaenopteridae
Genus Megaptera
Species Megaptera novaeangliae
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (Borowski, 1781)
Supplied as Borowski, 1781
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality McGaurans Beach, ~10 km southeast of Seaspray
Latitude -38.4463
Supplied as: "-38.4463"
Longitude 147.116
Supplied as: "147.116"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality McGaurans Beach, ~10 km southeast of Seaspray
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Collector
Georeference protocol gps
Georeferenced by Mr Peter Swinkels - Museum Victoria
Terrestrial true
Georeferenced date 2011-10-26T00:00
Supplied as 2011-10-26T00:00:00
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 19f36d44-3421-4d9a-bccd-a8c8c8fce52a
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Related records
    Record UUID f4d82f76-6f61-4456-813e-74c0a9c0015d
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID ed8e16db-7835-4fea-acfc-18f1d7b11abd
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID a0595ee4-0dd7-4a90-a030-076b76a20378
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID ed071db5-4dd2-48f0-9580-6b6730f02fad
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID 34d7bd2d-5c77-4a4b-8ff5-c83c7dc83ccc
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID 8117c927-ab24-4f1f-b76e-257fdd6cecd8
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID f9f6f205-cac0-485f-82b8-ed5d680670db
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID 2a968fda-1c29-4d2c-b9ed-72a017d4a2c0
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID 9d6a8bd5-61f7-41eb-ad4d-ec91a9dc14ec
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116
    Record UUID 4d8a4c03-057f-472a-8418-26c4d84e12a5
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781
    Coordinates -38.4463,147.116

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 West Gippsland
    NRM Regions 2017 West Gippsland
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 West Gippsland
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Twofold Shelf
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 611.25 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 147.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 134.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 135.75 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 171.75 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 44.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.075 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.1749997 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.275 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.025 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.575 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.17
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 25.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 14.05 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5925
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.88