Occurrence record: Sponge:Z003940

Preserved specimen of Desmacidon Bowerbank, 1862 recorded on 1990-11-15
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Supplied institution code "MAGNT"
Collection Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Porifera Collection
Supplied collection code "Sponge"
Catalog number Z003940
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:MAGNT:Sponge:Z003940
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved Specimen"
Preparations whole animal (ETOH)
Identified by J.N.A. Hooper  
License CC-BY 4.0 (Au)
Supplied as CC BY 4.0 AU
Rights holder Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1990-11-15
Supplied as year:1990  month:11  day:15 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Desmacidon
Identified to rank genus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Porifera
Class Demospongiae
Order Poecilosclerida
Family Desmacididae
Genus Desmacidon
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Bowerbank, 1862
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Northern Territory
Supplied as: "NT"
Locality NE side of S island, Bay S of Sphinx Head, Wessel Is, Gove Peninsula
Latitude -11.23333
Supplied as: "-11.23333"
Longitude 136.68167
Supplied as: "136.68167"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "not recorded"
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Arnhem Land
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Territory
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern Territory
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern Territory
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Arnhem Wessel
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Northern Territory (including Coastal Waters)
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NHULUNBUY

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1499.5 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 22.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 10.5 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 107.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 592.5 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 82.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 942.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 20.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 18.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 27.3 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 11.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 20.95 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 25.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 6.8 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 25.95 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.59 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.45499998
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.5 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 28.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 28.349998 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.515
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0