Occurrence record: 40492090

Human observation of Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758) | Water Vole recorded on 2025-03-22

API

Overview

Occurrence ID	40492090
Basis of record	Human observation
Scientific name	Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758) - Water Vole
Licence	CC-BY-NC
Record Date	2025-03-22 (Day)
Locality	Beck Brook, off Oakington to Girton road
Location	Grid Reference: TL42366304 Latitude: 52.247176 Longitude: 0.083901
Recorded by	Pilbeam, Peter
Identification verification status	Accepted - considered correct

Dataset

Data partner	Mammal Society
Data resource	National Mammal Atlas Project, online recording
Bibliographic citation	National Mammal Atlas Project, online recording ([year of download])
Collection code	iRecord \| General data

Abundance

Individual count	Signs of several

Organism

Life stage	not recorded
Sex	not recorded

Event

Occurrence date	2025-03-22
Date precision	Day
Event date	2025-03-22
Event remarks	Droppings and latrines
Event ID	28738116

Taxonomy

Scientific name	Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758) Supplied scientific name "Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758)"
Common name	Water Vole Supplied common name "European Water Vole"
Taxon rank	species
Name match metric	Taxon GUID match The match was based on the supplied taxon concept ID rather than the scientific name.
Species	Arvicola amphibius
Genus	Arvicola
Family	Cricetidae
Order	Rodentia
Class	Mammalia
Phylum	Chordata
Kingdom	Animalia
Taxon ID	NHMSYS0020546253
Taxonomic issue	No issues
Habitat taxon	terrestrial\|freshwater
Establishment means taxon	Native
Scientific name authorship	(Linnaeus, 1758)

Geospatial

Country	United Kingdom
State/Province	England
Locality	Beck Brook, off Oakington to Girton road
Latitude (WGS84)	52.247176
Longitude (WGS84)	0.083901
Geodetic datum	EPSG:4326
Coordinate uncertainty in meters	7.1
Bbox	52.247133,0.083826,52.24722,0.083977
Grid size in meters	10
Easting	542360
Northing	263040
Grid reference wkt	POLYGON((0.08383 52.24713,0.08383 52.24722,0.08398 52.24722,0.08398 52.24713,0.08383 52.24713))
Grid reference	TL42366304

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Test name	Result
Latitude Longitude calculated from grid reference	Warning
Country inferred from coordinates	Warning
Show/Hide 13 passed properties
Basis of record not supplied	Passed
Basis of record badly formed	Passed
Invalid collection date	Passed
Incomplete collection date	Passed
First of the month	Passed
Data are generalised	Passed
Name not supplied	Passed
Name not recognised	Passed
Zero latitude	Passed
Coordinate uncertainty not valid	Passed
Coordinate uncertainty not specified	Passed
Location not supplied	Passed
Missing geodetic datum	Passed
Show/Hide 3 missing properties
Missing name of person who identified the specimen/observation	Missing
Missing catalogue number	Missing
Decimal coordinates not supplied	Missing
Show/Hide 74 tests that have not been run
Coordinates dont match supplied state	Unchecked (lack of data)
Institution code not recognised	Unchecked (lack of data)
Georeferenced after occurrence date	Unchecked (lack of data)
Occurrence status assumed to be present	Unchecked (lack of data)
Type status not recognised	Unchecked (lack of data)
unrecognisedOccurrenceStatus	Unchecked (lack of data)
Unparseable verbatim coordinates	Unchecked (lack of data)
Possible duplicate record	Unchecked (lack of data)
Collection code not recognised	Unchecked (lack of data)
Longitude is negated	Unchecked (lack of data)
Media unrepresentative	Unchecked (lack of data)
First of the year	Unchecked (lack of data)
Grid reference calculated using latitude and longitude	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing name of person who georeferenced the occurrence	Unchecked (lack of data)
No collection date supplied	Unchecked (lack of data)
Homonym issues with supplied name	Unchecked (lack of data)
Taxonomic issue	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth value supplied in feet	Unchecked (lack of data)
Decimal latitude/longitude conversion failed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing identification verification status	Unchecked (lack of data)
Suspected outlier	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates are out of range for species	Unchecked (lack of data)
Cultivated / escapee	Unchecked (lack of data)
Badly formed altitude	Unchecked (lack of data)
Min and max depth reversed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude value non-numeric	Unchecked (lack of data)
Habitat incorrect for species	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing an identification qualifier	Unchecked (lack of data)
First of the century	Unchecked (lack of data)
Invalid geodetic datum	Unchecked (lack of data)
Resource taxonomic scope mismatch	Unchecked (lack of data)
Media unrepresentative for taxon	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing georeference date	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing georeferenced verification status	Unchecked (lack of data)
Geodetic datum assumed WGS84	Unchecked (lack of data)
Zero longitude	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude value supplied in feet	Unchecked (lack of data)
Latitude is negated	Unchecked (lack of data)
Outside expert range for species	Unchecked (lack of data)
Min and max altitude reversed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Kingdom not recognised	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth value non-numeric	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing identification date	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates dont match supplied country	Unchecked (lack of data)
Altitude out of range	Unchecked (lack of data)
coordinatesNotCentreOfGrid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Supplied country not recognised	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates derived from verbatim coordinates	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinate precision and uncertainty transposed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Image URL invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Precision / range mismatch	Unchecked (lack of data)
Collector name unparseable	Unchecked (lack of data)
Unrecognised ID verification status	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing coordinate precision	Unchecked (lack of data)
Higher taxonomy missing	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing georeferenced sources	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing taxonomic rank	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing georeferenced protocol	Unchecked (lack of data)
Supplied coordinates are zero	Unchecked (lack of data)
Missing identification references	Unchecked (lack of data)
Invalid scientific name	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates centre of country	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates converted to WGS84	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinate precision not valid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates are transposed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Coordinates converted from UTM	Unchecked (lack of data)
Day and month transposed	Unchecked (lack of data)
Unrecognized geodetic datum	Unchecked (lack of data)
Unable to convert UTM coordinates	Unchecked (lack of data)
Identification date before occurrence date	Unchecked (lack of data)
Depth out of range	Unchecked (lack of data)
Date precision invalid	Unchecked (lack of data)
Supplied coordinates centre of state	Unchecked (lack of data)
Name not in national checklists	Unchecked (lack of data)

Additional political boundaries information

England
Districts, Boroughs and Unitary Authorities (England)	South Cambridgeshire District
National Character Areas (England)	Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Claylands
Non-Metropolitan Counties and Greater London (England)	Cambridgeshire County
GB
Districts, Boroughs and Unitary Authorities (Great Britain)	South Cambridgeshire District
GB countries	England
Ordnance Survey Grids - 100km	TL
Ordnance Survey Grids - 10km	TL46
Ordnance Survey Grids - 50km	TLNW
Watsonian Vice Counties (GB)	Cambridgeshire
Watsonian Vice Counties – 12 mile (GB)	Cambridgeshire
Watsonian Vice Counties – 3 mile (GB)	Cambridgeshire
UK
Countries with sea areas	England
Local Environmental Records Centre Boundaries of the UK	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Environmental Records Centre
UK, IoM, Channel Islands
Hexagonal grid for reporting - 10km	5789
Square grid for reporting - 10km	28984
World base layer	United Kingdom

Group	Field Name	Original Value	Processed Value
Classification	Species		Arvicola amphibius
	Name match metric		taxonIdMatch
	Vernacular name	European Water Vole	Water Vole
	Scientific name	Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758)	Arvicola amphibius
	Class		Mammalia
	Genus id		NHMSYS0000376186
	Taxon concept ID		NHMSYS0020546253
	Kingdom id		NBNSYS0100001342
	Left		5636
	Habitat taxon		terrestrial\|freshwater
	Phylum		Chordata
	Kingdom		Animalia
	Class id		NHMSYS0000376154
	Genus		Arvicola
	Phylum id		NBNSYS0100002380
	Order		Rodentia
	Taxon rank		species
	Establishment means taxon		Native
	Order id		NHMSYS0000376181
	Taxonomic issue		["noIssue"]
	Species id		NHMSYS0020546253
	Family id		NBNSYS0000005110
	Taxon ID	NHMSYS0020546253
	Family		Cricetidae
	Taxon rank id		7000
	Scientific name authorship		(Linnaeus, 1758)
	Right		5636
Event	Date precision		Day
	Event date	2025-03-22	2025-03-22
	Year		2025
	Event remarks	Droppings and latrines
	Day		22
	Month		03
	Event ID	28738116
Identification	Abcd identification qualifier		Not provided
	Identification qualifier		Not provided
	Identification verification status	Accepted - considered correct	Accepted - considered correct
Occurrence	Occurrence ID	40492090
	Basis of record	HumanObservation	HumanObservation
	Recorded by	Pilbeam, Peter	Pilbeam, P. Peter
	Sex	not recorded
	Rights holder	The Mammal Society and Biological Records Centre
	Individual count	Signs of several
	Dataset name	National Mammal Atlas Project, online recording
	Life stage	not recorded
	Occurrence status	present	present
	Collection code	iRecord \| General data
Attribution	Data resource		National Mammal Atlas Project, online recording
	Data provider uid		dp8
	License		CC-BY-NC
	Data Resource ID	dr671
	Data partner		Mammal Society
Location	Decimal latitude		52.247176
	Bbox		52.247133,0.083826,52.24722,0.083977
	Grid size in meters		10
	Easting		542360
	Coordinate uncertainty in meters	10	7.1
	Northing		263040
	Grid reference wkt	POLYGON((0.08383 52.24713,0.08383 52.24722,0.08398 52.24722,0.08398 52.24713,0.08383 52.24713))	POLYGON((0.08383 52.24713,0.08383 52.24722,0.08398 52.24722,0.08398 52.24713,0.08383 52.24713))
	Country		United Kingdom
	Grid reference	TL42366304	TL42366304
	State province		England
	Decimal longitude		0.083901
	Locality	Beck Brook, off Oakington to Girton road	Beck Brook, off Oakington to Girton road
	Geodetic datum		EPSG:4326

Occurrence record: 40492090

Overview

Dataset

Abundance

Organism

Event

Taxonomy

Geospatial

User flagged issues

Data quality tests

Additional political boundaries information

- flagged by