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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H460

Preserved specimen of Allostichaster polyplax (Müller & Troschel, 1844) | Seastar recorded on 1969-03-02
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Dataset

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 H460
Occurrence ID TMAG: H0460
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector A.J. Dartnall
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1969-03-02
End day of year 61
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 61

Taxonomy

Scientific name Allostichaster polyplax
Original name usage Allostichaster polyplax
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Stichasteridae
Genus Allostichaster
Species Allostichaster polyplax
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1844)
Supplied as (Muller & Troschel,1844)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Cape Portland
Latitude -40.7431
Supplied as: "-40.7431"
Longitude 147.9387
Supplied as: "147.9387"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
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
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Cape Portland
    CAPAD 2020 Terrestrial Cape Portland
    NRM Regions 2010 Fitzroy
    NRM Regions 2017 Fitzroy
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Fitzroy
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Boags
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Queensland (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 GLADSTONE REGIONAL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) GLADSTONE
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 74926.0 frequency
    Species Richness 2132.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 861.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 102.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 6.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 97.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 51.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 371.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 32.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 371.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 19.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 21.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 22.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 12.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 17.9 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.2 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.14
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 30.5 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 26.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 26.4 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 51.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.47
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.65