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Occurrence record: Mammalogy:C37458

Preserved specimen of Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758) | Killer Whale recorded on 2013-09-23
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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 C37458
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Mammalogy:PreservedSpecimen:C37458
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Skull|Dry
Identified by Mandy Watson - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)  
Identified date /10/2013
Collector 1.  Watson, Mandy   2.  Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)   3.  Department of Environment and Primary Industries   4.  Coastguard, Portland  
Supplied as "Mandy Watson - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) | Department of Environment and Primary Industries | Portland Coastguard | Portland Surf Life Saving Club"
Sex Male
Individual count 1
Life stage Subadult
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
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [salvage]
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Date identified /10/2013

Event

Occurrence date 2013-09-23
Supplied date "2013-09-23T00:00:00\2013-10-18T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol salvage  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Animalia | Chordata | Vertebrata | Mammalia | Cetacea | Odontoceti | Delphinidae
Scientific name Orcinus orca
Identified to rank species
Common name Killer Whale
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Orcinus
Species Orcinus orca
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Linnaeus, 1758)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Point Danger Coastal Reserve, Crumpets Beach
Latitude -38.3911
Supplied as: "-38.3911"
Longitude 141.649
Supplied as: "141.649"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Point Danger Coastal Reserve, Crumpets Beach
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources unknown
Georeference protocol unknown
Georeferenced by Bob McPherson
Municipality Portland
Terrestrial true
Georeferenced date 2013-10-04T00:00
Supplied as 2013-10-04T00:00:00
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 008ebfe8-7c63-4744-9773-4dc0a97c312b
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Related records
    Record UUID 2a40ad84-f239-4223-93a4-fcd8b1e7b2d1
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID f25723d6-e7c0-4d1a-8cde-bf8c86cf4dde
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID b2f77471-d30d-434c-b1f3-5ce961be9fe5
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID c33d2356-de98-47f4-a285-4a2e65a77ed4
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID e827b533-92d6-4c5b-8931-af5fe8faa771
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID 700111f6-507f-4649-9b66-4ea6a8d33bf1
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID fea1cd47-c84d-4a44-9358-ee59d392af57
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID dc0a0bf5-1d8b-4ef9-80ce-9c9714070ec7
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID a2c59853-b36a-4803-a609-36bdc6d28b04
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649
    Record UUID cd7c7a8a-fdab-4be3-a0b3-1f6f4f9d1964
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Orcinus orca
    Coordinates -38.3911,141.649

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Gulf
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Gulf
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Gulf
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Tagalaka Croydon Area ILUA #1
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Tagalaka People #2
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) TRAEGER
    Forests of Australia 2018B Eucalypt Medium Woodland

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 707.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 124.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 262.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 49.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 520.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 20.9 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 17.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 24.1 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 13.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 22.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 13.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 23.3 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.55 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.12
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 37.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 30.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 29.8 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.29
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.85