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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H2314

Preserved specimen of Asterias amurensis Lütken, 1871 | Northern Pacific Seastar recorded on 1993-07-23
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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 H2314
Occurrence ID TMAG: H2314
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by E. Turner  
Collector T. Thomas
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1993-07-23
End day of year 204
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 204

Taxonomy

Scientific name Asterias amurensis
Original name usage Asterias amurensis
Identified to rank species
Common name Northern Pacific Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Asterias
Species Asterias amurensis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Lütken, 1871
Supplied as Lutkin, 1871
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Ralphs Bay: Richardsons Beach
Latitude -42.9475
Supplied as: "-42.9475"
Longitude 147.4559
Supplied as: "147.4559"
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
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Bruny
    NRM Regions 2010 South
    NRM Regions 2017 South NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Bruny
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Tasmania
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 DERWENT RIVER
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Tasmania
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Clarence
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CLARENCE CITY COUNCIL
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) FRANKLIN
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 26518.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1513.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 566.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 146.66667 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 7.8333335 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 120.666664 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 138.16667 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 13.666667 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 159.33333 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.733334 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 48.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.633333 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.516666 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 17.533333 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 4.3166666 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.783334 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.966666 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 10.116667 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0166667
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 21.866667 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.25 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 13.766666 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 51.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.65333337
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.9266667