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Occurrence record: MIZ:Z9377

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816) | Eight-armed Cushion Star recorded on 1964-01-29
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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 Z9377
Other catalog numbers ["390-79"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MIZ:9377
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Marsh, L.M.  
Collector Garth, G.S.  
Supplied as "Garth, G.S."
Individual count 10
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1979-01-01

Event

Occurrence date 1964-01-29
Supplied as year:1964  month:1  day:29 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra calcar
Identified to rank species
Common name Eight-armed Cushion Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra calcar
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1816)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -38.2833
Supplied as: "-38.2833"
Longitude 144.5
Supplied as: "144.5000"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to AUTOGAZ
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38°17`S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 144°30`E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Corangamite
    NRM Regions 2017 Corangamite
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Corangamite
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Victoria
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Acacia Forests and Woodlands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Other shrublands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 605.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 168.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 112.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 19.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 112.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 180.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 46.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.5 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.4 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.08
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.7 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.59
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.92
    Elevation 3.0 m