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TCWC_10457.03

Not suspect, not examined
Smooth Puffer – Lagocephalus laevigatus

Photos

No photos available.

Map

Location 29.27472° N, 94.84695° W (± 45 m)

Taxonomy

GenusLagocephalus
Specieslaevigatus

Specimen

Num Specimens1

Identification

DeterminerELJ/1976

Collection Event

CollectorELJ and Marine Biomedical Institute
Collected Date1976.10.1

Geography

CountryUnited States
StateTexas
LocalityGulf of Mexico; Gulf of Mexico, about 7 miles out from Galveston

Record Source

Source Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections (type: specimens)
Institution Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections (type: museum)
Curator Kevin W. Conway
Record Added May 13, 2010
Record Last Modified July 27, 2022
Data Processing Track Track 2
From Data Set Received 04/2009 to 10/2010

Identification

Suspect Notes None
Count 1

Current Determination

Actinopterygii Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontidae Lagocephalus Lagocephalus laevigatus
Determiner Fishes of Texas staff
Determination Date Unknown
Determination Type Unspecified
Identification Comments None
Identification Confidence Unknown

Collecting Event

Collected Oct. 1, 1976
Collector(s)
Collecting Event ID 14291
Field Notes
There are no field notes available.

Locality

Jurisdiction Galveston, Texas
Name Unknown
Hydrography Texas-Gulf Region Galveston Bay-San Jacinto Galveston Bay-Sabine Lake West Galveston Bay Dickinson Bayou Dickinson Bayou
Captive no
Locality Photos
No locality photos available.
Ecoregion Unknown
HUC 12 120402040200
Georeferencing Remarks Georeference notes (if available appended here) and coordinates extracted from GBIF (Sept2017) for FoTX Project. No error provided by GBIF for this record so determined based on number of decimal places in coordinates. Use with caution. | GBIF latlong_remarks: Georeferenced by LLT/2000 using USGS GNIS website
Georeferencing Annotation —
Has not been Georeferenced because —
flag (suspect/examine) June 30, 2021
suspect: noexamination: no
verbatim data June 30, 2021
Count of specimens retrieved from GBIF and applied to verbatim data: 1
georeference June 30, 2021
Error: 45
Remarks: Georeference notes (if available appended here) and coordinates extracted from GBIF (Sept2017) for FoTX Project. No error provided by GBIF for this record so determined based on number of decimal places in coordinates. Use with caution.
Coordinates: -94.84695, 29.27472GBIF latlong_remarks: Georeferenced by LLT/2000 using USGS GNIS website
Georeference notes (if available appended here) and coordinates extracted from GBIF (Sept2017) for FoTX Project. No error provided by GBIF for this record so determined based on number of decimal places in coordinates. Use with caution.
date June 27, 2012
date_range: 10/1/1976-10/1/1976
collectors May 23, 2012
collectors: E.L.J.
staff comment November 5, 2011
ID Status: Not flagged for specimen examination. By default we accept donor specimen determinations (after synonymization to our taxonomy). If georeferenced to TX this record has been considered in spatial context with other occurences of this species and accepted as correct.
ID Comments: NANot Georeferenced Because: Marine
collectors November 5, 2011
collectors: E.L.J.
date November 5, 2011
date_range: 10/1/1976-10/1/1976
georeference March 29, 2007
Coordinates: ;Georeferencer: JLGeographic note: Marine USA Texas

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