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Australian Faunal Directory
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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8f8d2e99-0135-4574-bd0b-8ba5604118e6

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:Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita
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
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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

Conservation status

IUCNLeast Concern

Occurrence records map

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Description

The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a large white cockatoo with bright yellow crest. It is the largest white cockatoo in Australia. These cockatoos are sold in the pet trade and can be kept as a pet in large cage or aviary. source: OZ Animals

Online resources

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita

Common Names

Common name Source
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
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Crested Cockatoo
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
class
AVES
order
PSITTACIFORMES
family
CACATUIDAE
subfamily
Cacatuinae
tribe
Cacatuini
genus
Cacatua
subgenus
Cacatua (Cacatua)
species
Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita  Recorded in Australia
subspecies
Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita fitzroyi  Recorded in Australia
subspecies
Cacatua (Cacatua) galerita galerita  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

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Record maps from other sources

Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA