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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:A3188

Preserved specimen of Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) | Long-finned Pilot Whale
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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 Vertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Mammalogy"
Catalog number A3188
Occurrence ID urn:catalog:TMAG:Mammalogy:A3188
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Isabel Beasley, Brian Looker, Drew Lee (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment)  
Supplied as "Isabel Beasley, Brian Looker, Drew Lee (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery / Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment)"
Sex Female
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Occurrence date Year: 2008, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:2008 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Globicephala melas
Identified to rank species
Common name Long-finned Pilot Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Globicephala
Species Globicephala melas
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Traill, 1809)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Sandy Cape
Latitude -41.42043
Supplied as: "-41.42043"
Longitude 144.74876
Supplied as: "144.74876"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 50
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 50.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Arthur-Pieman
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Arthur-Pieman
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Franklin
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Tasmania
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 SANDY CAPE COAST
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Circular Head
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CIRCULAR HEAD COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MURCHISON
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Forests of Australia 2018B Non forest
    Vegetation types - native Low closed forests and closed shrublands
    Vegetation types - present Low closed forest and tall closed shrubland

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1383.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 503.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 211.5 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 34.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 212.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 45.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 509.5 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 12.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 54.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 19.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.6 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.5 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 15.7 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.84
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.7 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.7 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 12.429167 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 51.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.895
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0