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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K3920

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra oriens (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
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Dataset

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 K3920
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:389704"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Identified by Gowlett-Holmes, K L  
Identified date 2004-03-24
Collector Gowlett-Holmes, K. L  
Supplied as "Gowlett-Holmes, K L"
Individual count 2
License CC-BY
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 2004-03-24

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:32887
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra oriens
Supplied scientific name "Patiriella oriens"
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Supplied as "Patiriella"
Species Meridiastra oriens
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Latitude -43.0586
Supplied as: "-43.0586"
Longitude 147.9478
Supplied as: "147.9478"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Tasman Peninsula, Waterfall Bay, CathedralCove
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 43 03 31 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 147 56 52 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Waterfall-Fortescue
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Waterfall-Fortescue
    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
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Tall Open
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Eucalypt Tall Open Forests
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Eucalyptus (+/- tall) open forest with a dense broad-leaved and/or tree-fern understorey (wet sclerophyll)
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Nature Conservation Reserve

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 886.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 263.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 195.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 196.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 23.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 265.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 12.9 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 49.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 18.8 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.2 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.0 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.1 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 15.2 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.84
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 19.7 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.3 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.2 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 11.0625 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 51.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.84
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 38.0 m