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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.1541

Preserved specimen of Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842) | Biscuit Star
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number J.1541
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1039487","urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.1541"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.1541
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Clark, Dr Hubert Lyman - Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University  
Collector FIS "Endeavour", 1909-1914
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1014469
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia magnifica
Supplied scientific name "Tosia magnifica (Muller & Troschel, 1842)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia magnifica
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Tosia magnifica (Muller & Troschel, 1842)
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Muller & Troschel, 1842)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Latitude -42.666
Supplied as: "-42.666"
Longitude 148.05
Supplied as: "148.05"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Oyster Bay
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Australia, Tasmania, Oyster Bay (42° 40' S, 148° 03' E)";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 42° 40' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 148° 3' E

Additional properties

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dcterms type PhysicalObject

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Freycinet
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmanian Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Freycinet
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 17779.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2156.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 643.4 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 166.6 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 9.2 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 142.6 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 160.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 15.8 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 182.2 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.68 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.359999 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.76 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.58 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.28 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.58 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 11.16 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.95
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.24 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.24 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 14.74 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 52.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.686
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.956