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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K3207

Preserved specimen of Tosia australis Gray, 1840 | Biscuit Star
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number K3207
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:380346"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Identified by Gowlett-Holmes, K L  
Collector Gowlett-Holmes, K. L  
Supplied as "Gowlett-Holmes, K L"
Individual count 1
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1991-10-28

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:29445
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia australis
Supplied scientific name "Tosia australis Gray, 1840"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia australis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1840
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -35.084771
Supplied as: "-35.084771"
Longitude 137.749652
Supplied as: "137.749652"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Yorke Penin., Edithburgh Jetty, on jetty pile
Coordinate precision 0.000001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 35 05 05 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 137 44 59 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Lower Yorke Peninsula
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Lower Yorke Peninsula
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern and Yorke
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern and Yorke
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern and Yorke
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions St Vincent Gulf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Melaleuca forests and woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 388.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 163.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 3.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 40.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 52.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 41.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 165.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.6 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 41.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.4 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 8.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.6 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.46 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.15
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 25.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 20.7 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.3 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 16.575 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.35
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.76