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Occurrence record: Ornithology:B7380

Preserved specimen of Sterna (Sterna) paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 | Arctic Tern recorded on 1960-10-01
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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 Ornithology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ornithology"
Catalog number B7380
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Ornithology:PreservedSpecimen:B7380
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skin|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

Occurrence date 1960-10-01
Supplied date "1960-10-01T00:00:00\1960-10-01T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae
Scientific name Sterna (Sterna) paradisaea
Supplied scientific name "Sterna paradisaea"
Identified to rank species
Common name Arctic Tern
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Charadriiformes
Family Laridae
Genus Sterna
Species Sterna paradisaea
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Pontoppidan, 1763
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Western Port, Somers
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 145.17
Supplied as: "145.17"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Western Port, Somers
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference protocol AMG conversion, collection or Gazetteer
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.120833 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Elevation 23.0 m