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FishBrain_SourceID_76526

Not suspect, pending examination
Tarpon Megalops atlanticus
NS G5 NS S5

Photos

No photos available.

Map

Location 30.53825° N, 91.09560° W (± 30859.6 m)

Taxonomy

GenusMegalops
Speciesatlanticus

Collection Event

Collected Date2013.10.28

Geography

CountryUS
StateLA
CountyEast Baton Rouge Parish

Other

Weight22.68
Length1.32
Event RemarksMethod: bottom fishing

Record Source

Source Fishbrain (type: citizen science)
Institution Fishbrain (type: citizen science)
Curator Unknown
Record Added June 24, 2020
Record Last Modified July 27, 2022
Data Processing Track Track 3
From Data Set Received 5/2017 to 11/2017

Identification

Suspect Notes All Fishbrain records can be verified via photos so are flagged for verification even when not suspected to be an error.
Count No data

Current Determination

Actinopterygii Elopiformes Megalopidae Megalops Megalops atlanticus
Determiner Unknown
Determination Date Unknown
Determination Type Unspecified
Identification Comments None
Identification Confidence Unknown

Collecting Event

Collected Oct. 28, 2013
Collector(s)
No collector information is available for this record.
Collecting Event ID 407472
Field Notes
There are no field notes available.

Locality

Jurisdiction East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Name Louisiana State, East Baton Rouge County/Parish/Municipio
Hydrography Lower Mississippi Region Lower Mississippi-Lake Maurepas Lake Maurepas Amite Redwood Creek-Comite River Blackwater Bayou-Comite River
Captive no
Locality Photos
No locality photos available.
Ecoregion Baton Rouge Terrace
HUC 12 080702020607
Georeferencing Remarks County matched to list of GIS determined county centroids and errors.
Georeferencing Annotation
Has not been Georeferenced because This record, being part of the track 3 import, is not formally georeferenced by FoTX staff at this time. However, to allow mapping and visualization of this record, locality information has been provisionally accepted if provided by the donor or if location text could be matched to previously georeferenced records by FoTX team or donor data. For many records spatial error is either accepted from the donor (when provided) or derived based on coordinate precision.
flag (suspect/examine) May 23, 2022
suspect: FALSE

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