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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.26273

Preserved specimen of Salmacina australis Haswell, 1884 | Tube Worm
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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 W.26273
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1140500,urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.26273"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Johnson, Mr Richard Thorpe - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates  
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Degree of establishment hand collected on SCUBA
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Sampling protocol [hand collected on SCUBA]
Date identified 2000

Event

Sampling protocol hand collected on SCUBA  
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Salmacina australis
Supplied scientific name "Salmacina australis Haswell, 1884"
Identified to rank species
Common name Tube Worm
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Sabellida
Family Serpulidae
Genus Salmacina
Species Salmacina australis
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Salmacina australis Haswell, 1884
Scientific name authorship Haswell, 1884
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to Haswell, 1884

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -32.750557
Supplied as: "-32.750557"
Longitude 152.19305
Supplied as: "152.19305"
Datum EPSG:4326
Location remarks [NSW 1491] Australia, New South Wales, south of Point Stephens Lighthouse (32° 45' 02" S, 152° 11' 35" E) 31/05/1998 - 31/05/1998, hand collected on SCUBA
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 32° 45' 02" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 152° 11' 35" E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Port Stephens - Great Lakes
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Port Stephens - Great Lakes
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Port Stephens - Great Lakes
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Port Stephens - Great Lakes
    GER Hunter Valley GER Hunter Valley
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Manning Shelf
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Central Eastern Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Hunter-Central Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 Hunter
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Hunter
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Hunter
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Manning Shelf
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 New South Wales
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 51550.0 frequency
    Species Richness 3996.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1348.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 327.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 240.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 28.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 319.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 41.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 455.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 16.6 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 34.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.2 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 8.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 13.8 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.2 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 16.1 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.45 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.19
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 22.7 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 18.3 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.81
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 11.0 m