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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.21945

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816) | Eight-armed Cushion Star recorded on 1988-05-04
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number J.21945
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1115484","urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.21945"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.21945
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Rowe, Dr Frank W.E. - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates  
Collector 1.  Springthorpe, Roger Tenison   2.  Australian Museum   3.  Invertebrates, Marine  
Supplied as "Springthorpe, Roger Tenison - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1988
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeComments: "New combination for Patiriella calcar";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1075564
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeComments: "New combination for Patiriella calcar";
Occurrence date 1988-05-04
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra calcar
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Eight-armed Cushion Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra calcar
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816)
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1816)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Lamarck, 1816)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Latitude -38.783
Supplied as: "-38.783"
Longitude 143.666
Supplied as: "143.666"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Mounts Bay, Hayley Point
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[VIC 69] Australia, Victoria, Mounts Bay, Hayley Point (38° 47' S, 143° 40' E) 04/05/1988 - 04/05/1988";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38° 47' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 143° 40' E

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Corangamite
    NRM Regions 2017 Corangamite
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Corangamite
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Victoria
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 993.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 343.33334 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.333333 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 156.33333 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 30.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 157.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 29.666666 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 344.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.233334 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 48.333332
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.166666 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 13.833333 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 15.733334 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.5 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.8 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.333334 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.49666667 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.93333334
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.433334 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 17.333334 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.533334 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 13.9875 °C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.7733333
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 1.0 m