PLOT c/ZCY1-WA · version 1 of 1
The writer lists the hydroids Sertularia macrocarpa, S. divergens and S. tenuis with Williamstown among their localities.
Sertularia macrocarpa, Bale (2).—Portland ; Queenscliff; Williamstown. Sertularia divergens, Lamouroux (2).—Williamstown ; Portland. Sertularia tenuis, Bale (2).—Williamstown.Historical passage
About Williamstown
- Kind
- Reported by source
- Who said it
- Reported by community
- Period
- 1888
- Checked
- Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification.
- Open questions
- None openOpen questions and challenges are counted publicly; their text is published when they are resolved.
- Where it says so
- The Victorian naturalist, v.5 (1888-1889) (on archive.org) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) · View in PLOT — p. 132, victoriannatural518881889fiel, leaf 176, printed page 132
- How they know
- accounts-core@0.1.0: screen_passage@1, extract_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural518881889fiel, leaf 176, printed page 132
- Limitations
- A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- Framework targets
- none linked
- Editions
- october-26th-release
How we found this
- In short
- Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
- Protocol
- accounts-core 0.1.0
- Question
- Species written about here
- Channel
- historical_archives
- Query
- Williamstown | Williams Town | Williams-town | Point Gellibrand | Gellibrand's Point | Gellibrand Point | Jawbone | Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural518881889fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
- Screening
- include (meets criteria), proposed by AI: Hydroid species listed with Williamstown as a locality.
- Extraction
- claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract_passage@1
- Note
- accounts-core run williamstown-2026-10-23: Internet Archive texts (Victorian Naturalist v.1-37, Letters from Victorian Pioneers) and ALA specimen facets. Trove and BHL blocked: they need API keys.
Cite as: PLOT record c/ZCY1-WA v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1888), reported by source
History (1)
- Version 1 (shown here): first published version