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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K5515

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra oriens (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number K5515
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:606596"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Laperousaz, Thierry - South Australian Museum  
Collector 1.  Laperousaz, Thierry   2.  South Australian Museum  
Supplied as "Laperousaz, Thierry - South Australian Museum"
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Sampling protocol [Diving]

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:47772
Sampling protocol Diving  
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra oriens
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra oriens
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -35.3706
Supplied as: "-35.3706"
Longitude 136.847886
Supplied as: "136.847886"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Althorpe Islands, Western Isles
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 35 22 14 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 136 50 52 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Southern Spencer Gulf
    CAPAD 2016 Terrestrial Althorpe Islands
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Southern Spencer Gulf
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern and Yorke
    NRM Regions 2017 Northern and Yorke
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Northern and Yorke
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions St Vincent Gulf
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories South Australia
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Yorke Peninsula - South
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) GOYDER
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Naturally bare - sand, rock, claypan, mudflat
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Naturally bare, sand, rock, claypan, mudflat

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 16.416666 °C