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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H1357

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra gunnii (Gray, 1840) | Seastar recorded on 1969-01-04
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Dataset

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 H1357
Occurrence ID TMAG: H1357
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by M. O'Loughlin  
Collector Marine Study Group
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2002

Event

Occurrence date 1969-01-04
Supplied date "4/01/1969"
End day of year 4
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 4

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra gunnii
Original name usage Meridiastra gunnii
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra gunnii
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1840)
Supplied as (Gray,1840)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Western Port Bay: Flinders Jetty
Latitude -38.4754
Supplied as: "-38.4754"
Longitude 145.0254
Supplied as: "145.0254"
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 Meridiastra gunnii

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Victorian Embayments
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bass Strait Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Victoria
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NEPEAN
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Banksia woodlands
    Vegetation types - native Other forests and woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 27252.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2427.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 821.4 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 258.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.4 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 139.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 23.6 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 139.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 258.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.76 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.74 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.42 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.68 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.06 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.62 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.46 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.45 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0539999
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.72 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.68 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.726
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 57.0 m