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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H1150

Preserved specimen of Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867 | Eleven-armed Seastar recorded on 1928-01
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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 H1150
Occurrence ID TMAG: H1150
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector T.T. Flynn
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [By hand]
Occurrence remarks low tide

Event

Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1928, Month: 1, Day:
Supplied date "1928-01"
Sampling protocol By hand  
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Coscinasterias muricata
Original name usage Coscinasterias muricata
Identified to rank species
Common name Eleven-armed Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Coscinasterias
Species Coscinasterias muricata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Verrill, 1867
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Pirates Bay: Fossil Island: W side
Latitude -43.0329
Supplied as: "-43.0329"
Longitude 147.9462
Supplied as: "147.9462"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Tasman
    CAPAD 2022 - Terrestrial (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Tasman
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) Tasmanian South East
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) South East
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IBRA 6 Regions Tasmanian South East
    IBRA 7 Regions Tasmanian South East
    IBRA 7 Subregions South East
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Tasman
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) PROSSER
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Medium Woodland
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt open forests
    Vegetation types - present Eucalyptus open forest

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 22702.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2925.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 821.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 244.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 12.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 182.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 182.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 245.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.1 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 49.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 19.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.5 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.4 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 15.7 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.85
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.7 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.6 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.81
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0