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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H1956

Preserved specimen of Asterias amurensis Lütken, 1871 | Northern Pacific Seastar recorded on 1986-10-03
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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 H1956
Occurrence ID TMAG: H1956
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by E. Turner  
Collector D. Rowe
Individual count 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Occurrence remarks First samples to be collected of this species in Tasmanian waters. Mis-identified as Uniophora granifera until 1992.

Event

Occurrence date 1986-10-03
End day of year 276
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 276

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 River Derwent: off Rosny Point
Latitude -42.8786174
Supplied as: "-42.88"
Longitude 147.3510391
Supplied as: "147.35"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "AGD66"
Coordinate precision 0.01
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 10000.0
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
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 51618.0 frequency
    Species Richness 5406.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 532.625 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 134.375 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 7.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 110.625 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 15.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 127.25 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 154.125 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.8625 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 48.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.887499 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.7125 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.775 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 3.8625 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 8.7125 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.6 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 10.4375 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.085
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 22.6625 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 16.650002 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.6625 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.61
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.89625
    Elevation 2.0 m