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Occurrence record: MIZ:Z89839

Preserved specimen of Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck, 1816) | Small Knob Coral recorded on 2014-02-06
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "MIZ"
Catalog number Z89839
Other catalog numbers ["40"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MIZ:89839
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations 100% Ethanol
Identified by Richards, Z.T.  
Collector Richards, Z.T.
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [SCUBA]
Date identified 2013-01-01

Event

Event ID Minden Reef Survey I March 2013
Occurrence date 2014-02-06
Supplied as year:2014  month:2  day:6 
Sampling protocol SCUBA  
End day of year 37
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 37

Taxonomy

Scientific name Plesiastrea versipora
Identified to rank species
Common name Small Knob Coral
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa
Order Scleractinia
Family Plesiastreidae
Genus Plesiastrea
Species Plesiastrea versipora
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1816)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -32.0408
Supplied as: "-32.0408"
Longitude 115.4362
Supplied as: "115.4362"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality MRS-2/40
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 32°02.448`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 115°026.172`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions SW West Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Perth
    NRM Regions 2017 Swan Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Swan Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Leeuwin-Naturaliste
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF COCKBURN

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 19599.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1539.0 frequency