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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F210391

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra oriens (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003) | Seastar recorded on 2008-03-13
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
Institution code Museums Victoria
Supplied institution code "NMV"
Collection Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates"
Catalog number F210391
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F210391
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|Wet|ethanol 95%
Identified by P M. O'Loughlin  
Collector Marine Research Group of FNCV
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Field Number MRG 703
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [hand]
Date identified 2016

Event

Event ID MRG 703
Field Number MRG 703
Occurrence date 2008-03-13
Supplied date "2008-03-13T00:00:00\2008-03-13T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol hand  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra oriens
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra oriens (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra oriens
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
Supplied as (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Harmers Haven - S of Wonthaggi
Latitude -38.5833
Supplied as: "-38.5833"
Longitude 145.5
Supplied as: "145.5"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Harmers Haven - S of Wonthaggi
Minimum depth in metres 0
Maximum depth in metres 1
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources data provided with specimen(s)
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 West Gippsland
    NRM Regions 2017 West Gippsland
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 West Gippsland
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Victoria
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)