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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F71752

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816) | Eight-armed Cushion Star recorded on 1982-11-24
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F71752
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F71752
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Sex Unknown
Individual count 4
Associated Occurrence Status Associated record
Associated occurrences The occurrence is associated with a representative record.
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Associated records ASSOCIATED

Event

Occurrence date 1982-11-24
Supplied date "1982-11-24T00:00:00\1982-11-24T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra calcar
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Eight-armed Cushion Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra calcar
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1816)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Addis, point
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 144.25
Supplied as: "144.25"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Addis, point
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record is associated with the representative record. This mean another record has been detected to be similar to this record, and that the other record (the representative record) has the most detailed information for the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID 1295725b-6cee-43db-beb3-22c464ed2943
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)
    Coordinates -38.4,144.25
    Related records
    Record UUID 8f24856d-4c93-4118-adee-0e0cec8cc0a6
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)
    Coordinates -38.4,144.25
    Record UUID 34beadd7-1cd0-4636-a904-fa8fb2764181
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)
    Coordinates -38.4,144.25
    Record UUID 3d24ac94-cabe-4f2a-a9a6-d33da468803e
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)
    Coordinates -38.4,144.25
    Record UUID c96beba7-b0e3-4848-82c9-770ffa9635db
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)
    Coordinates -38.4,144.25

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Point Addis
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Point Addis
    NRM Regions 2010 Corangamite
    NRM Regions 2017 Corangamite
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Corangamite
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Victoria
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)