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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F95671

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra occidens (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003) | Seastar recorded on 1969-11-15
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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 F95671
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F95671
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry
Identified by P M. O'Loughlin  
Collector Dr Brian J. Smith
Sex Unknown
Individual count 8
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 PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Date identified 2003

Event

Occurrence date 1969-11-15
Supplied date "1969-11-15T00:00:00\1969-11-15T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra occidens
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra occidens (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra occidens
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
Supplied as (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Western Australia
Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Locality Frenchman bay, King George Sound
Latitude -35.08
Supplied as: "-35.08"
Longitude 117.95
Supplied as: "117.95"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Frenchman bay, King George Sound
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions SW West Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 South Coast
    NRM Regions 2017 South Coast Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South Coast Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions WA South Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF ALBANY

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 914.5 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 391.5 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 5.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 79.666664 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 58.333332 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 88.166664 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 36.166668 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 406.83334 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.983334 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 42.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 15.766666 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 13.533333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.083334 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.816667 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.0666666 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.7 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.83166665
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.633333 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.816666 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 13.0 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.66
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0