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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H741

Preserved specimen of Coscinasterias muricata Verrill, 1867 | Eleven-armed Seastar recorded on 1972-02-20
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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 H741
Occurrence ID TMAG: H0741
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector J.R. Penprase
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1972-02-20
End day of year 51
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 51

Taxonomy

Scientific name Coscinasterias muricata
Original name usage Coscinasterias muricata
Identified to rank species
Common name Eleven-armed Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Coscinasterias
Species Coscinasterias muricata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Verrill, 1867
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Western Port Bay: Honeysuckle Point
Latitude -38.4334
Supplied as: "-38.4334"
Longitude 145.0491
Supplied as: "145.0491"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Regions) South East Coastal Plain
    IBRA (Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) Version 7 (Subregions), contextual (polygon) Gippsland Plain
    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
    IBRA 6 Regions South East Coastal Plain
    IBRA 7 Regions South East Coastal Plain
    IBRA 7 Subregions Gippsland Plain
    Hydrology
    Australian Drainage Divisions 2021 South East Coast (Victoria)
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 South East Coast (Victoria)
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 BUNYIP RIVER
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Areas 2021 Mornington Peninsula
    Indigenous Locations 2021 Mornington - South
    Indigenous Regions 2021 Melbourne
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Victoria
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    ASGS Australian States and Territories Victoria
    Australian States and Territories Victoria
    Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021 Flinders
    Local Government Areas 2011 Mornington Peninsula (S)
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Mornington P'sula - South
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
    PSMA ABS Census Indigenous Language Speakers by Area - I01B (2016) 18
    PSMA ABS Census Selected Person Characteristics by Indigenous Status by Area - I01A (2016) 1305
    PSMA ABS Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (2016) GREATER MELBOURNE
    PSMA ABS SA2 Statistical Areas (2016) FLINDERS
    PSMA ABS SA3 Statistical Areas (2016) MORNINGTON PENINSULA
    PSMA ABS SA4 Statistical Areas (2016) MORNINGTON PENINSULA
    PSMA Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (2018) FLINDERS
    PSMA Indigenous Areas (2016) MORNINGTON PENINSULA
    PSMA Indigenous Locations (2016) MORNINGTON - SOUTH
    PSMA Indigenous Regions (2016) MELBOURNE
    PSMA Remoteness Areas (2016) Inner Regional Australia
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) NEPEAN
    PSMA States (2016) VICTORIA
    State Electoral Divisions 2022 Nepean (Eastern Victoria)
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Social
    Australia 2021 Australia
    Destination Zones 2021 Flinders
    Greater Capital City Statistical Areas 2021 Greater Melbourne
    Local Government Areas 2023 Mornington Peninsula
    Postal Areas 2021 3916
    Remoteness Areas 2021 Inner Regional Australia
    States and Territories 2021 Victoria
    Statistical Areas Level 2 Flinders
    Statistical Areas Level 3 Mornington Peninsula
    Statistical Areas Level 4 Mornington Peninsula
    Tourism Regions 2021 Peninsula
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Eucalypt Woodlands
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Eucalyptus woodlands with ferns, herbs, sedges, rushes or wet tussock grassland

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 27252.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2427.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 835.8571 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 261.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 9.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 142.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 23.142857 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 142.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 261.14285 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.742857 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.357142 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.985714 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.9 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.5 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.5857143 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.371428 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.4485714 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0742857
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.871428 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.371428 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.5 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.73142856
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0
    Elevation 55.0 m