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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F93468

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra medius (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003) | Seastar recorded on 1969-02-22
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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 F93468
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F93468
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry
Identified by P M. O'Loughlin  
Collector Marine Study Group of Victoria  
Supplied as "Marine Study Group of Victoria"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
Associated Occurrence Status Representative record
Associated occurrences This record has 1 inferred associated occurrences
For more information see Inferred associated occurrence details
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
Associated records REPRESENTATIVE
Dataset / Survey name [Western Port Survey]
Date identified 2002

Event

Dataset / Survey name Western Port Survey  
Occurrence date 1969-02-22
Supplied date "1969-02-22T00:00:00\1969-02-22T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra medius
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra medius (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 medius
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 | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Merricks
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 145.12
Supplied as: "145.12"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Merricks
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Inferred associated occurrence details

    This record has been identified as the representative occurrence in a group of associated occurrences. This mean other records have been detected that seem to relate to this record and this particular record has the most detailed information on the occurrence. More information about the duplication detection methods and terminology in use is available here:

    Representative Record
    Record UUID a21ecc51-1d9b-462d-94a3-92942854d6fb
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra medius (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.12
    Related records
    Record UUID fe333f52-0404-43b1-94eb-e1b8d1a6c6f7
    Data Resource Museums Victoria provider for OZCAM
    Raw Scientific Name Meridiastra medius (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)
    Coordinates -38.4,145.12

    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    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

    Topography
    Elevation 12.0 m