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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F259703

Preserved specimen of Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828) | Brooding Brittle Star recorded on 2019-02-26
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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 F259703
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F259703
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Whole|wet|ethanol 96%|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dr Tim D O'Hara - Museum Victoria  
Identified date 21/03/2019
Collector Marine Research Group of FNCV
Individual count 1
License CC0
Supplied as https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
Rights holder Museums Victoria
Institution ID urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34978
Field Number MRG 853
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [hand]
Date identified 2019-03-21
Supplied as 21/03/2019

Event

Event ID MRG 853
Field Number MRG 853
Occurrence date 2019-02-26
Supplied date "2019-02-26T00:00:00\2019-02-26T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol hand  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Ophiuroidea | Myophiuroidea | Ophintegrida | Amphilepidida | Gnathophiurina | Amphiuroidea | Amphiuridae
Scientific name Amphipholis squamata
Supplied scientific name "Amphipholis squamata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Brooding Brittle Star
Supplied common name "Brittle Star"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Ophiuroidea
Order Ophiurida
Supplied as "Amphilepidida"
Family Amphiuridae
Genus Amphipholis
Species Amphipholis squamata
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Portland Bay - Anderson Point
Latitude -38.333
Supplied as: "-38.333"
Longitude 141.61
Supplied as: "141.61"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Portland Bay - Anderson Point
Minimum depth in metres 0
Maximum depth in metres 1
Coordinate precision Unknown
Georeference sources data provided with specimen(s)
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    NRM Regions 2010 Glenelg Hopkins
    NRM Regions 2017 Glenelg Hopkins
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Glenelg Hopkins
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Australian States and Territories Victoria
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Gunditj Mirring and State of Victoria
    Local Government Areas 2012 deprecated Glenelg - Portland
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 GLENELG SHIRE
    National Native Title Register (NNTR, Determinations of Native Title) - boundaries and core attributes Gunditjmara - Part A
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) WESTERN VICTORIA
    World Country Boundaries Australia
    Vegetation
    Vegetation types - native Eucalypt open forests
    Vegetation types - present cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 756.75 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 298.75 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 5.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 94.5 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 42.25 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 94.5 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 25.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 298.75 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.1 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.4 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.075001 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.125 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.725 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.8 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.175 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.475 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.9075
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.824999 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 17.475 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.8 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.665
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0