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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H743

Preserved specimen of Allostichaster polyplax (Müller & Troschel, 1844) | Seastar recorded on 1971-11-15
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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 H743
Occurrence ID TMAG: H0743
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

Event

Occurrence date 1971-11-15
End day of year 319
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 319

Taxonomy

Scientific name Allostichaster polyplax
Original name usage Allostichaster polyplax
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Stichasteridae
Genus Allostichaster
Species Allostichaster polyplax
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1844)
Supplied as (Muller & Troschel,1844)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Tinderbox: Piersons Point
Latitude -43.0500186
Supplied as: "-43.0514"
Longitude 147.345142
Supplied as: "147.3441"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
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 2016 Marine Tinderbox
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Tinderbox
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Tinderbox
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bruny
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bruny
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 24769.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2648.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 698.6 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 190.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.4 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 151.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 13.8 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 159.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 17.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 202.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 49.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.24 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.24 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.06 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.3199997 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.639999 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.74 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 11.84 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51199996 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.984
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.38 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.84 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.98 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.774
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.996
    Elevation 91.0 m