Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
species
Data links
LSID JSON / WMS /RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e742472b-a1cc-4def-abb3-f559a4cdd671

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=species:Cyclochila australasiae
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence
 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

Occurrence records map

occurrence map map legend

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  • representative image of taxa
    Source: Wikipedia

Description

The two common names of Greengrocer and Yellow Monday refer to different colour forms of the same species. The origin of the names is unclear but they are known to have been in use as early as 1896. Other names for different colour forms include Chocolate Soldier (dark tan form) and Blue Moon (turquoise form).... source: Australian Museum Factsheets

Online resources

Australian Museum Cicada Expedition
Images, Occurrence record
Australian Museum Factsheets
Description, Distribution, Morphology, Habitat, Images
Flickr EOL
Images, Occurrence record
Morphbank
Images, Occurrence record
OZ Animals
Distribution, Morphology, Diet, Reproduction
South Australian Museum Type Images
Images, Occurrence record

Species Lists

Australian iconic species