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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K3915

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra gunnii (Gray, 1840) | 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 K3915
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:433209"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector Cotton, B. C  
Supplied as "Cotton, B C"
Record number SAMA K3915
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:33873
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra gunnii
Supplied scientific name "Patiriella brevispina"
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Supplied as "Patiriella"
Species Meridiastra gunnii
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1840)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -35.0442
Supplied as: "-35.0442"
Longitude 138.5068
Supplied as: "138.5068"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Marino
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 35 02 39 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 138 30 24 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
    NRM Regions 2017 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions St Vincent Gulf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    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
    Vegetation types - native unknown/no data
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 573.4 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 239.4 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 4.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 61.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 51.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 61.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 20.8 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 241.2 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.18 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 43.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.46 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.82 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.58 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 11.66 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.26 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 21.46 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.444 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.334
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 28.4 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 21.46 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 11.72 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 48.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.51
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.968