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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H1989

Preserved specimen of Tosia australis Gray, 1840 | Biscuit Star recorded on 1982-04
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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 H1989
Occurrence ID TMAG: H1989
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector J.G.K. Harris
Individual count 1.0
Life stage adult, juvenile
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1982, Month: 4, Day:
Supplied date "1982-04"
Date precision MONTH

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia australis
Original name usage Tosia australis
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia australis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1840
Supplied as Gray,1840
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Great Oyster Bay
Latitude -42.12
Supplied as: "-42.12"
Longitude 148.08
Supplied as: "148.08"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 0.01
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    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 Freycinet
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt woodlands
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 7005.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1230.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 565.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 127.333336 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 120.333336 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 17.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 147.33333 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 176.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.1 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 46.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.8 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 13.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 19.066668 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.7333333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 9.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.1 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 10.133333 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.53 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.06
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.766666 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.933332 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 15.466666 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.59
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.8466667