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Occurrence record: MIZ:Z100529

Preserved specimen of Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck, 1816) | Small Knob Coral recorded on 2018-05-18
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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 Z100529
Other catalog numbers ["P.V034"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MIZ:100529
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations 100% Ethanol
Identified by Juszkiewicz, D.J.  
Collector Juszkiewicz, D.J. & Savill, K.L.
Individual count 1
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [SCUBA]
Associated records ASSOCIATED
Date identified 2019-01-01

Event

Occurrence date 2018-05-18
Supplied as year:2018  month:5  day:18 
Sampling protocol SCUBA  
End day of year 138
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 138

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 fuzzyMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1816)
Supplied as (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat
Supplied as "Marine"
Latitude -21.785
Supplied as: "-21.7850"
Longitude 114.165
Supplied as: "114.1650"
Datum EPSG:4326
Island Ningaloo Reef
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to GPS
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 21°47`06.0"S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 114°09`54.0"E

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 0e0f34b7-c2e8-4320-9d9a-9948acb4ae4b
    Data Resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Coordinates -21.785,114.165
    Related records
    Record UUID 3fac7897-f0fb-4ca3-9aba-922fc2a27cd0
    Data Resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Coordinates -21.785,114.165
    Record UUID 25dbd65c-9d20-4a44-a8c2-05ec53d0a720
    Data Resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Coordinates -21.785,114.165
    Record UUID 260a5947-ec29-4b96-abac-7d96f9754d02
    Data Resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Coordinates -21.785,114.165
    Record UUID 2141f006-441a-4005-96c6-d0f6e4375166
    Data Resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Coordinates -21.785,114.165
    Record UUID ca3fe4db-cf57-4aa8-be61-77d53a7286f9
    Data Resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
    Coordinates -21.785,114.165

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Ningaloo
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Ningaloo
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Ningaloo
    NRM Regions 2010 Rangelands
    NRM Regions 2017 Rangelands Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Rangelands Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Pilbarra (offshore)
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Pilbara-Gascoyne
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 YANNARIE RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF EXMOUTH
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Other Crown Land
    Vegetation types - native Chenopod shrubs,samphire shrublands and forblands
    Vegetation types - present Chenopod shrublands, samphire shrubs and forblands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 1749.0 frequency
    Species Richness 901.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 244.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 83.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 0.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 3.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 90.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 79.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 127.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 23.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 27.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 27.8 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 25.0 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 21.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 14.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 19.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 11.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 24.8 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.3
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 35.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 29.6 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 21.5 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 24.8375 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 50.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.11
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.28