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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H2045

Preserved specimen of Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867 | Eleven-armed Seastar recorded on 1982-12-10
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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 H2045
Occurrence ID TMAG: H2045
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector J.R. Penprase
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1982-12-10
End day of year 344
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 344

Taxonomy

Scientific name Coscinasterias muricata
Original name usage Coscinasterias muricata
Identified to rank species
Common name Eleven-armed Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Coscinasterias
Species Coscinasterias muricata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Verrill, 1867
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality East Devonport: 0.5 km E of breakwater
Latitude -41.169
Supplied as: "-41.169"
Longitude 146.376
Supplied as: "146.376"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
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) Boags
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Boags
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Devonport
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 DEVONPORT CITY COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) MERSEY
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 14752.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2052.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 848.6 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 295.2 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 131.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 30.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 132.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 26.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 295.2 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.78 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 50.4
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.46 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.52 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.82 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.74 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.94 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 16.42 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.056
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.720001 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.44 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 8.74 degrees C
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - annual 883.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - coldest quarter 312.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest month 38.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - driest quarter 137.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - seasonality 31.363249 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - warmest quarter 137.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest month 114.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Precipitation - wettest quarter 312.0 mm
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 13.05 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual range 17.900002 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest month min 4.7 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - coldest quarter mean 8.983334 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - diurnal range mean 8.566667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - driest quarter mean 17.116667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - isothermality 47.85847 %
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - seasonality 328.53668
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest month max 22.6 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - warmest quarter mean 17.116667 °C
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - wettest quarter mean 8.983334 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 49.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.742
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0