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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F240522

Preserved specimen of Tosia australis Gray, 1840 | Biscuit Star recorded on 1966-10-19
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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 F240522
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F240522
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dr Christopher Mah - Smithsonian Institution  
Identified date 30/05/2016
Collector 1.  Monash University Department of Zoology   2.  S, B.J.  
Supplied as "Monash University Department of Zoology | B J. S"
Individual count 5
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
Sampling protocol [dredge]
Date identified 2016-05-30
Supplied as 30/05/2016

Event

Occurrence date 1966-10-19
Supplied date "1966-10-19T00:00:00\1966-10-19T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol dredge  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Goniasteridae
Scientific name Tosia australis
Supplied scientific name "Tosia australis Gray, 1840"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia australis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1840
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Channel off HMAS Cerberus
Latitude -38.37
Supplied as: "-38.37"
Longitude 145.2
Supplied as: "145.2"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Channel off HMAS Cerberus
Minimum depth in metres 2
Maximum depth in metres 3
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Victoria
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Mornington P'sula - East
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Mangroves

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 786.8889 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 240.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 135.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 22.222221 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 136.22223 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 20.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 242.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.9 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.366667 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.433332 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.5888886 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.566667 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.466666 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.81111 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.46 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.1277778
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 25.0 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.88889 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 11.877777 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.2125 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 47.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.71
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 4.0 m