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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F69203

Preserved specimen of Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828) | Brooding Brittle Star recorded on 1984-03-04
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F69203
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F69203
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dr Tim D O'Hara - Museum Victoria  
Collector Marine Research Group of Victoria
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 1984

Event

Occurrence date 1984-03-04
Supplied date "1984-03-04T00:00:00\1984-03-04T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Ophiuroidea | Myophiuroidea | Ophintegrida | Amphilepidida | Gnathophiurina | Amphiuroidea | Amphiuridae
Scientific name Amphipholis squamata
Supplied scientific name "Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Brooding Brittle Star
Supplied common name "Brittle Star"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Ophiuroidea
Order Ophiurida
Supplied as "Amphilepidida"
Family Amphiuridae
Genus Amphipholis
Species Amphipholis squamata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality The Crags, Port Fairy
Latitude -38.37
Supplied as: "-38.37"
Longitude 142.1
Supplied as: "142.1"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality The Crags, Port Fairy
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Glenelg Hopkins
    NRM Regions 2017 Glenelg Hopkins
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Glenelg Hopkins
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 725.8333 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 270.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 6.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 99.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 37.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 99.333336 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 23.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 270.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.116667 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.033333 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.583334 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.0333333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.533334 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.033334 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.75 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5133333 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.98
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.633333 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 17.75 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.533334 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.665
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 9.0 m