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Occurrence record: invertebrates:E23415

Preserved specimen of Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 | Southern Ocean Giant Squid recorded on 1999-11-01
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "invertebrates"
Catalog number E23415
Occurrence ID TMAG: E23415
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by E. Turner  
Collector Collector not recorded
Sex F
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [Trawl]
Occurrence remarks by fishing vessel

Event

Occurrence date 1999-11-01
Supplied date "1/11/1999"
Sampling protocol Trawl  
End day of year 305
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 305

Taxonomy

Scientific name Architeuthis dux
Original name usage Architeuthis dux
Identified to rank species
Common name Southern Ocean Giant Squid
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Order Oegopsida
Family Architeuthidae
Genus Architeuthis
Species Architeuthis dux
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Steenstrup, 1857
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Maria Island (unlocalised)
Latitude -42.58
Supplied as: "-42.58"
Longitude 148.06
Supplied as: "148.06"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Verbatim locality off Maria Island, east Tasmania
Coordinate precision 0.01
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Architeuthis dux

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Maria Island
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Maria Island
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Maria Island
    CAPAD 2022 - Terrestrial (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Maria Island
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Freycinet
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmanian Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Freycinet
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 18378.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1378.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 609.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 152.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 132.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 155.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 178.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.9 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.3 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.9 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 10.2 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.97
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.6 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 15.2 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 53.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.65
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.92