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USNM_222821

Not suspect, not examined

Photos

No photos available.

Map

Location 28.37000° N, 90.33000° W (± 900 m)

Taxonomy

GenusRhinochimaera
Speciesatlantica

Collection Event

Collected Date1969 Jan 30 - 0000 00 00

Geography

CountryUnited States
StateLouisiana
LocalityOff Texas

Record Source

Source National Museum of Natural History (type: specimens)
Institution National Museum of Natural History (type: museum)
Curator Lynne Parenti
Record Added May 13, 2010
Record Last Modified June 22, 2022
Data Processing Track Track 1
From Data Set Received 11/1997 to 05/2006

Identification

Suspect Notes None
Count 1

Current Determination

Chondrichthyes Chimaeriformes Rhinochimaeridae Rhinochimaera Rhinochimaera atlantica
Determiner Unknown
Determination Date June 30, 2022
Determination Type taxonomic adjustment
Identification Comments Specimen not examined; ID derived from synonymization to GBIF backbone and synonyms in FoTX taxonomy | derived from effort to match GBIF backbone and FoTX synonyms
Identification Confidence Unknown

Collecting Event

Collected Jan. 30, 1969
Collector(s)
No collector information is available for this record.
Collecting Event ID 22536
Field Notes
There are no field notes available.

Locality

Jurisdiction Gulf of Mexico, North America
Name Unknown
Hydrography Not available
Captive no
Locality Photos
No locality photos available.
Ecoregion Unknown
HUC
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:
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: 365000
Remarks: Point placed on coast halfway between mouths of Sabine an Rio Grande Rivers. Error includes all of Texas coastline.
Locality: Texas coastCoordinates: -96.382263, 28.382688Georeferencer: Adam Cohen
Point placed on coast halfway between mouths of Sabine an Rio Grande Rivers. Error includes all of Texas coastline.
date June 27, 2012
date_range: 1/30/1969-1/30/1969
collectors May 23, 2012
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: Too vague
collectors November 5, 2011
date November 5, 2011
date_range: 1/30/1969-1/30/1969
georeference June 9, 2006
Coordinates: ;Georeferencer: AECGeographic note: Marine USA Louisiana

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