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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K3334

Preserved specimen of Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842) | Biscuit Star
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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 K3334
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:380458"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Identified by Gowlett-Holmes, K L  
Collector Gowlett-Holmes, K L
Individual count 1
License CC-BY
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1995-03-16
Supplied as 16/03/1995

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:29548
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 Tasman Penin., Norfolk Bay, near Taranna boat ramp
Latitude -43.042
Supplied as: "-43.042"
Longitude 147.862
Supplied as: "147.862"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 43 02 31 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 147 51 43 E

Additional properties

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

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bruny
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmanian Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 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
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Unresolved Tenure

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 7745.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1277.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 821.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 246.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 12.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 180.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 16.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 180.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 248.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.1 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 49.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 19.1 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.6 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.4 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.5 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 15.7 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.86
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.3 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.6 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 51.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.81
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0