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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.24329

Preserved specimen of Plectaster decanus (Müller & Troschel, 1843) | Seastar recorded on 2007-05-07
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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.24329
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1219026","urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.24329"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.24329
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Keable, Stephen J - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates  
Collector Springthorpe, R.T.  
Supplied as "R.T. Springthorpe"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [hand collected on SCUBA]
Date identified 2007

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1095902
Occurrence date 2007-05-07
Sampling protocol hand collected on SCUBA  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Plectaster decanus
Supplied scientific name "Plectaster decanus Muller & Troschel, 1843"
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Spinulosida
Family Echinasteridae
Genus Plectaster
Species Plectaster decanus
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Accepted name Plectaster decanus Muller & Troschel, 1843
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1843)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Muller & Troschel, 1843

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -33.53716
Supplied as: "-33.53716"
Longitude 151.38441
Supplied as: "151.38441"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality east side of West Reef
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[NSW 3179] Australia, New South Wales, east side of West Reef (33° 32' 14" S, 151° 23' 04" E) 07/05/2007 - 07/05/2007, Springthorpe, Roger T - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates(Collector), hand collected on SCUBA, Field Collected - Aquatic, Marine";
Coordinate precision 1e-05
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 33° 32' 13.8" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 151° 23' 3.9" E

Additional properties

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dcterms:type PhysicalObject
dcterms modified 2015/4/9
dcterms type PhysicalObject
verbatim uncertainty 10m-100m

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Hunter-Central Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 Greater Sydney
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Greater Sydney
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Hawkesbury Shelf
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1336.6666 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 271.66666 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 223.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 29.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 400.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 40.666668 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 452.33334 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 16.166668 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 34.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.566668 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 19.466667 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.133333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.833333 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 14.033333 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.23
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.633333 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 21.966667 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 20.533333 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.86333334
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0