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Occurrence record: Porifera:G332416

PreservedSpecimen of Sycon recorded on 2003-09-26

Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Queensland Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Queensland Museum
Supplied institution code "QM"
Collection code Queensland Museum Porifera
Catalog number G332416
Other catalog numbers 2048627
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:QM.Porifera:G332416
Basis of record Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "Preserved specimen"
Preparations Spirit
Collector Csiro
Supplied as "CSIRO"
License CC-BY
Sampling protocol Sled - Epibenthic
Occurrence status present
Collection code Porifera
Abcd identification qualifier Not provided

Event

Collecting date 2003-09-26
Sampling protocol Sled - Epibenthic
Date precision Day

Taxonomy

Scientific name Sycon
Taxon rank genus
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Porifera
Class Calcarea
Order Leucosolenida
Family Sycettidae
Genus Sycon
Taxonomic issue No issues
Name match metric Exact match
The supplied name matched the name exactly.
Name parse type wellformed

Geospatial

Country Australia
State / Province Queensland
Locality Great Barrier Reef
Latitude -17.853635
Longitude 146.585892
Geodetic datum EPSG:4326
Maximum depth in meters 54.2m
Coordinate precision 0.00001
Coordinate uncertainty in meters 20.0
Biome Marine

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Central & North GBR
    Australian Tropical Savanna Australian Tropical Savanna
    CAPAD 2010 Marine Great Barrier Reef Coast
    CAPAD 2012 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2014 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Great Barrier Reef
    Directory of Important Wetlands Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
    Global 200 priority ecoregions - Marine Great Barrier Reef
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Marine NRM
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Northeast Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Reef
    Marine
    FAO Fishery Statistical Areas 71
    Geomorphology of the Australian Margin and adjacent seafloor Reef
    Global Seagrass Species Richness (2003) 13.00000000
    Marine Ecoregions of the World Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Territorial Sea Territorial Sea
    Political
    Indigenous Protected Areas 2013 Girringun
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CASSOWARY COAST REGIONAL
    PSMA Localities (2018) CORAL SEA
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2016) HINCHINBROOK
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) HILL

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Acacia – Miller et al 2012 - 0.5 degree 0.0
    Amphibians (global) – Pyron & Wiens 2011 - 0.5 degree 0.0
    Endemism 0.011736383
    Endemism (Non-marine) 0.003739209
    Mammals – Fritz et al 2009 - 0.5 degree 0.0
    Occurrence Density 0.962963 frequency
    Shannon Diversity (H) 0.0 index
    Species Richness 0.012345679 frequency
    Distance
    Euclidean Distance to Coast (metres) 36644.945 m
    Marspec Distance to Shore 35.0 km
    Hydrology
    Water Observations From Space 0.0 Percentage
    Marine
    GEOMACS - geometric mean 0.020023 Pascals
    Great Barrier Reef 100m DEM -56.939583 m
    Marspec Annual Range in Sea Surface Salinity 0.96999997 100 x psu
    Marspec Annual Range in Sea Surface Temperature 4.98 100 x degrees C
    Marspec Annual Variance in Sea Surface Salinity 7.95 100 x psu
    Marspec Annual Variance in Sea Surface Temperature 3.1927998 10,000 x degrees C
    Marspec Bathymetric Slope 0.4 10 x degrees
    Marspec Concavity 0.002 1000 x degrees
    Marspec East/West Aspect -0.61 radians
    Marspec Maximum Monthly Sea Surface Salinity 35.53 100 x psu
    Marspec Mean Annual Sea Surface Salinity 35.12 100 x psu
    Marspec Mean Annual Sea Surface Temperature 25.97 100 x degrees C
    Marspec Minimum Monthly Sea Surface Salinity 34.559998 100 x psu
    Marspec North/South Aspect 0.78 1 x radians
    Marspec Plan Curvature -1.0E-4 x 10000
    Marspec Profile Curvature -4.0E-4 x 10000
    Marspec Sea Surface Temperature of the coldest ice-free month 23.39 100 x degrees C
    Marspec Sea Surface Temperature of the warmest ice-free month 28.369999 100 x degrees C
    Sea Surface Temperature - MODIS Terra 26.335081 Degrees C
    SeaWIFS K490 Mean 0.0761195 Kd@490nm/m^2
    SeaWiFS Chlorophyll Mean 0.5740163 mg/m^3
    Topography
    Averaged Topographic Relief 70.75 metres
    Bathymetry and Topography 9 sec -26.0 m
    Topographic Slope (degrees) 0.9131385 degrees