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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K4159

Preserved specimen of Allostichaster polyplax (Müller & Troschel, 1844) | Seastar
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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 K4159
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:389895"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Identified by Keough, M  
Collector Keough, M  
Supplied as "Keough, M"
Individual count 3
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Date identified 1977

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:33070
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Allostichaster polyplax
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Stichasteridae
Genus Allostichaster
Species Allostichaster polyplax
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1844)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -38.0562
Supplied as: "-38.0562"
Longitude 140.7023
Supplied as: "140.7023"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Port MacDonnell Jetty
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 38 03 22 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 140 42 08 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 South Australian Murray Darling Basin
    NRM Regions 2017 South Australian Murray Darling Basin
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South Australian Murray Darling Basin
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 245.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 73.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 39.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 29.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 49.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 79.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.4 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 38.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 26.8 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 17.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 28.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 11.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 14.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.2 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.64
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 32.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 23.3 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 15.4 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.18
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.37
    Elevation 17.0 m