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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H3015

Preserved specimen of Asterias amurensis Lütken, 1871 | Northern Pacific Seastar recorded on 1994-08-30
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery provider for OZCAM
Institution code Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Supplied institution code "TMAG"
Collection Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "invertebrates"
Catalog number H3015
Occurrence ID TMAG: H3015
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by E. Turner  
Collector A. Graham
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [By hand]
Occurrence remarks outside 10 min. timed swim

Event

Occurrence date 1994-08-30
Sampling protocol By hand  
End day of year 242
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 242

Taxonomy

Scientific name Asterias amurensis
Original name usage Asterias amurensis
Identified to rank species
Common name Northern Pacific Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Asterias
Species Asterias amurensis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Lütken, 1871
Supplied as Lutkin, 1871
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality North West Bay: Powder Jetty
Latitude -43.0616189
Supplied as: "-43.063"
Longitude 147.3160426
Supplied as: "147.315"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bruny
    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
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 24769.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2648.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 721.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 197.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.666667 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 155.66667 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 162.66667 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 17.666666 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 210.33333 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.266666 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 49.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.133333 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.133333 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.133333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.533334 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.866667 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 11.866667 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5133333 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.99333334
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.4 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.8 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 9.9 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.7866667
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 40.0 m