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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F87161

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra atyphoida (H.L. Clark, 1916) | Sea Star recorded on 1973-05-10
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F87161
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F87161
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry
Identified by P M. O'Loughlin  
Collector Pearsons, D.C.  
Supplied as "D C. Pearsons"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 3
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV

Event

Occurrence date 1973-05-10
Supplied date "1973-05-10T00:00:00\1973-05-10T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra atyphoida
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra atyphoida (Clark, 1916)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Sea Star
Supplied common name "Seastar"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra atyphoida
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (H.L. Clark, 1916)
Supplied as (Clark, 1916)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | South Australia
Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Locality Point Sinclair
Latitude -32.1
Supplied as: "-32.1"
Longitude 132.98
Supplied as: "132.98"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Point Sinclair
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Nuyts Archipelago
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Nuyts Archipelago
    NRM Regions 2010 Eyre Peninsula
    NRM Regions 2017 Eyre Peninsula
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Eyre Peninsula
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Murat
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Far West Coast Native Title Settlement ILUA
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Far West Coast
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Mallee woodlands and shrublands
    Vegetation types - present Mallee woodlands and shrublands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 307.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 127.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 34.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 50.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 38.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 12.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 127.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 36.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 27.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.6 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.9 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.53 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.16
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 21.2 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.6 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 55.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.19
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.44