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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:ZI38

Machine observation of Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842) | Biscuit Star recorded on 2006-01-01
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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 ZI38
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:MachineObservation:ZI38
Record type Machine observation
Supplied basis "MachineObservation"
Identified by Blair Patullo - Museums Victoria  
Collector Dr Mark D Norman - Museums Victoria | Dr Julian K. Finn - Museum Victoria
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Language en
Type StillImage
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [SCUBA]
Dataset name / Survey name [Visual Survey of Australian Underwater Fauna]

Event

Dataset name / Survey name Visual Survey of Australian Underwater Fauna  
Occurrence date 2006-01-01
Supplied date "2006-01-01T00:00:00\2006-12-31T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol SCUBA  
End day of year 1
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 1

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Goniasteridae
Scientific name Tosia magnifica
Supplied scientific name "Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia magnifica
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Blairgowrie marina
Latitude -38.35
Supplied as: "-38.35"
Longitude 144.77
Supplied as: "144.77"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Blairgowrie marina
Minimum depth in metres 0
Maximum depth in metres 5
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources Gazetteer
Georeference protocol gazetteer (Aus)
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Victorian Embayments
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bass Strait Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Victoria
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 24918.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2555.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 715.1667 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 216.66667 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 125.333336 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 21.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 125.333336 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 18.833334 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 216.83333 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.016666 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 46.666668
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.016666 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.433333 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.616667 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.8 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.65 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.55 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.349998 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.45333332 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.045
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.416666 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.349998 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.683333 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.67833334
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99333334