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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F68833

Preserved specimen of Ophioplocus bispinosus H.L. Clark, 1918 | Brittle Star recorded on 1973-03-11
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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 F68833
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F68833
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry
Identified by Frank W. Rowe  
Collector Marine Study Group of Victoria  
Supplied as "Marine Study Group of Victoria"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 3
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
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 1977

Event

Occurrence date 1973-03-11
Supplied date "1973-03-11T00:00:00\1973-03-12T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Ophiuroidea | Myophiuroidea | Ophintegrida | Amphilepidida | Ophionereidina | Ophiolepidoidea | Hemieuryalidae
Scientific name Ophioplocus bispinosus
Supplied scientific name "Ophioplocus bispinosus Clark, 1918"
Identified to rank species
Common name Brittle Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Ophiuroidea
Order Ophiurida
Supplied as "Amphilepidida"
Family Ophiolepididae
Supplied as "Hemieuryalidae"
Genus Ophioplocus
Species Ophioplocus bispinosus
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship H.L. Clark, 1918
Supplied as Clark, 1918
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Moonlight Beach, near Cape Otway
Latitude -38.75
Supplied as: "-38.75"
Longitude 143.2
Supplied as: "143.2"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Moonlight Beach, near Cape Otway
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Corangamite
    NRM Regions 2017 Corangamite
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Corangamite
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Other grasslands,herblands, sedgelands and rushlands
    Vegetation types - present Other grasslands, herblands, sedgelands and rushlands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 13.5375 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 49.0 %
    Elevation 93.0 m