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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K3258

Preserved specimen of Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842) | Biscuit Star
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Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number K3258
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:380382"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Identified by Hamilton-Bruce, R J  
Collector Zeidler, W Gowlett-Holmes, K L Bavandan, F A
Individual count 2
License CC-BY
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1993-08-06
Supplied as 6/08/1993

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:29480
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia magnifica
Supplied scientific name "Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia magnifica
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Mundy Island, Port Davey
Latitude -43.33
Supplied as: "-43.33"
Longitude 145.94
Supplied as: "145.94"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision 0.01
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 5000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 43 20 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 145 56 E

Additional properties

right holder Museum Board of South Australia
source file sam-ala-export-2024-12-18.csv

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