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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F99602

Preserved specimen of Ophiocentrus pilosus (Lyman, 1879) | Brittle Star
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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 F99602
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F99602
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dr Tim D O'Hara - Museum Victoria  
Identified date 1994
Collector Chidgey, Scott  
Supplied as "Scott Chidgey"
Sex Unknown
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 SWOP93 7 3
Language en
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [airlift]
Dataset / Survey name [SWOP93]
Date identified 1994

Event

Dataset / Survey name SWOP93  
Event ID SWOP93 7 3
Field Number SWOP93 7 3
Occurrence date Year: 1993, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1993 
Sampling protocol airlift  
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Ophiuroidea | Myophiuroidea | Ophintegrida | Amphilepidida | Gnathophiurina | Amphiuroidea | Amphiuridae
Scientific name Ophiocentrus pilosus
Supplied scientific name "Ophiocentrus pilosa (Lyman, 1879)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Brittle Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Ophiuroidea
Order Ophiurida
Supplied as "Amphilepidida"
Family Amphiuridae
Genus Ophiocentrus
Species Ophiocentrus pilosus
Name match metric fuzzyMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lyman, 1879)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality 700 m off McGaurans Beach, eastern Bass Strait
Latitude -38.4487
Supplied as: "-38.4487"
Longitude 147.113
Supplied as: "147.113"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality 700 m off McGaurans Beach, eastern Bass Strait
Minimum depth in metres 7
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Location ID SWOP93 7 3

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    NRM Regions 2010 West Gippsland
    NRM Regions 2017 West Gippsland
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 West Gippsland
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southeast Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Twofold Shelf
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 611.25 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 147.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 134.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 13.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 135.75 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 14.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 171.75 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 15.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 44.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 22.7 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.075 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 5.1749997 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.275 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.025 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.575 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.5 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.17
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 25.2 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 14.05 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.5925
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.88