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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:QVM:15:54670

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra oriens (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003) recorded on 2012-09-27
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queen Victoria Museum Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "QVMAG"
Collection Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery - Invertebrates
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number QVM:15:54670
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations wet
Identified by Audroing, Kathryn  
Collector Maynard, David  
Supplied as "Maynard, David"
Individual count 1
License CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 2012-09-27
Supplied as year:2012  month:09  day:27.0 
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra oriens
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra oriens
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Low Head
Latitude -41.0636
Supplied as: "-41.0636"
Longitude 146.792611
Supplied as: "146.792611"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim coordinates 55G 482575 5454162

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Low Head
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Low Head
    NRM Regions 2010 North
    NRM Regions 2017 North NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Boags
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Tasmania
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 TAMAR RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated George Town - Pt A
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 GEORGE TOWN COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) BASS
    PSMA States (2016) TASMANIA
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Inland aquatic - freshwater, salt lakes, lagoons
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Freshwater, dams, lakes, lagoons or aquatic plants

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 715.6667 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 239.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 119.666664 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 26.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 119.666664 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 21.333334 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 240.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.2 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 49.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.966667 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 13.066667 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.033333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.133333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.366667 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.066667 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.47 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0466666
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.166668 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 17.0 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.4 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 13.054167 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.7
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0