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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.55410

Preserved specimen of Spirobranchus polytrema (Philippi, 1844) | Tube Worm recorded on 1992-03-01
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number W.55410
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:3093265,urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:W.55410"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by Johnson, Mr Richard Thorpe - Australian Museum - Marine Invertebrates  
Collector A. Murray, R.T. Springthorpe & G.D.F. Wilson
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1998

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1062578
Occurrence date 1992-03-01
Supplied date "1992-03-01/1992-03-01"
End day of year 61
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 61

Taxonomy

Scientific name Spirobranchus polytrema
Supplied scientific name "Spirobranchus polytrema (Philippi, 1844)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Tube Worm
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Sabellida
Family Serpulidae
Genus Spirobranchus
Species Spirobranchus polytrema
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Spirobranchus polytrema (Philippi, 1844)
Scientific name authorship (Philippi, 1844)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Philippi, 1844)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory New South Wales
Latitude -28.808332
Supplied as: "-28.808332"
Longitude 153.60834
Supplied as: "153.60834"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Lennox Head
Location remarks [NSW 604] Australia, New South Wales, Lennox Head (28° 48' 30" S, 153° 36' 30" E) 01/03/1992 - 01/03/1992
Coordinate precision Unknown
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 28° 48' 30" S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 153° 36' 30" E

Additional properties

verbatim uncertainty 100m-1km

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Moreton Bay
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Cape Byron
    CAPAD 2018 Marine Cape Byron
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Cape Byron
    CAPAD 2022 - Marine (Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database) Cape Byron
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tweed-Moreton
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    NRM Regions 2010 Northern Rivers
    NRM Regions 2017 North Coast
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 North Coast
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North Coast
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Central Eastern Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Tweed-Moreton
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 New South Wales
    States including coastal waters New South Wales (including Coastal Waters)

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 20078.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1150.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1773.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 342.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 11.25 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 212.25 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 39.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 542.25 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 53.25 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 644.75 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 16.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 27.75
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.525 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 19.65 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.55 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 15.225 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 8.925 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 17.5 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.125
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 28.05 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 23.675 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 21.9 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.8975
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0