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Occurrence record: invertebrates:E31407

Preserved specimen of Spondylus tenellus Reeve, 1856 | Scarlet Thorny Oyster recorded on 1998-07-03
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "invertebrates"
Catalog number E31407
Occurrence ID TMAG: E31407
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by M.H. Richmond  
Collector Wells, M.  
Supplied as "M. Wells"
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [By hand]
Dataset / Survey name [M.H. Richmond Tasmanian seashells collection]
Occurrence remarks shore-based record

Event

Dataset / Survey name M.H. Richmond Tasmanian seashells collection  
Occurrence date 1998-07-03
Supplied date "3/7/1998"
Sampling protocol By hand  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Spondylus tenellus
Identified to rank species
Common name Scarlet Thorny Oyster
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Order Pectinida
Family Spondylidae
Genus Spondylus
Species Spondylus tenellus
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Reeve, 1856
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Supplied as: "TAS"
Locality East Devonport: beach & breakwater
Latitude -41.1719
Supplied as: "-41.1719"
Longitude 146.3695
Supplied as: "146.3695"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Spondylus tenellus

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Boags
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Devonport
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DEVONPORT CITY COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MERSEY
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 843.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 293.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 130.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 30.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 131.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 26.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 293.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 50.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.8 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 16.5 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.05
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.5 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 8.8 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 49.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.74
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0