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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F98372

Preserved specimen of Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842) | Biscuit Star recorded on 1992-03-21
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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 F98372
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F98372
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Clarrie Handreck - Marine Research Group  
Identified date 1992
Collector Marine Research Group of Victoria
Sex Unknown
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 SPPS 10 1992
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [SCUBA]
Dataset / Survey name [SPPS]
Date identified 1992

Event

Dataset / Survey name SPPS  
Event ID SPPS 10 1992
Field Number SPPS 10 1992
Occurrence date 1992-03-21
Supplied date "1992-03-21T00:00:00\1992-03-21T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol SCUBA  
Date precision DAY

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

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Southern Port Phillip Bay
Latitude -38.345
Supplied as: "-38.345"
Longitude 144.763
Supplied as: "144.763"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Southern Port Phillip Bay
Minimum depth in metres 10
Maximum depth in metres 13
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Location ID SPPS 10 1992

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 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
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 708.2 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 213.8 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 124.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 21.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 124.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 18.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 214.2 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.06 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 46.2
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.06 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.44 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.66 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.78 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.64 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.56 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.34 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.454 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.048
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.44 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.34 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.92 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.672
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.992