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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H1010

Preserved specimen of Tosia australis Gray, 1840 | Biscuit Star recorded on 1977-12-13
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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 H1010
Occurrence ID TMAG: H1010
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector J.R. Penprase
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [By hand]
Occurrence remarks below 0.3 m tide level / Sampling from 10/12/1977

Event

Occurrence date 1977-12-13
Sampling protocol By hand  
End day of year 347
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 347

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia australis
Original name usage Tosia australis
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
Supplied as Gray,1840
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Devonport: Coles Beach: W end
Latitude -41.16
Supplied as: "-41.16"
Longitude 146.337
Supplied as: "146.337"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West 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 MERSEY RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DEVONPORT CITY COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MERSEY
    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 unknown/no data
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 14752.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2052.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 885.2 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 310.8 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.6 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 135.8 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 30.6 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 136.8 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 27.8 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 310.8 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 51.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.359999 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.46 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.8400002 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.68 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.88 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 16.38 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0519999
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.640001 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.38 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 8.68 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 13.583333 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 49.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.75
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0