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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H2250

Preserved specimen of Asterias amurensis Lütken, 1871 | Northern Pacific Seastar recorded on 1992-07-17
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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 H2250
Occurrence ID TMAG: H2250
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by E. Turner  
Collector S. Gledhill
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1992-07-17
Supplied date "17/07/1992"
End day of year 199
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 199

Taxonomy

Scientific name Asterias amurensis
Original name usage Asterias amurensis
Identified to rank species
Common name Northern Pacific Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Asterias
Species Asterias amurensis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Lütken, 1871
Supplied as Lutkin, 1871
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Port Cygnet: Deep Bay
Latitude -43.2126218
Supplied as: "-43.214"
Longitude 147.1081485
Supplied as: "147.1071"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision 0.01
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Asterias amurensis

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bruny
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmanian Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bruny
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 HUON VALLEY COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) FRANKLIN
    PSMA States (2016) TASMANIA
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt open forests
    Vegetation types - present Eucalyptus open forest

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 9672.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1751.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 922.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 272.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 186.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 17.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 190.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 25.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 284.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 12.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 50.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 19.6 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 11.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 7.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.1 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 14.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.97
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.1 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 8.5 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 50.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.88
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 11.0 m