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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F87229

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra atyphoida (H.L. Clark, 1916) | Sea Star recorded on 1993-12-12
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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 F87229
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F87229
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by P M. O'Loughlin  
Collector O'Loughlin, P.M.  
Supplied as "P M. O'Loughlin"
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
Language en
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present
Owner institution code NMV
Sampling protocol [hand]
Date identified 2000

Event

Occurrence date 1993-12-12
Supplied date "1993-12-12T00:00:00\1993-12-12T00:00:00"
Sampling protocol hand  
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra atyphoida
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra atyphoida (Clark, 1916)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Sea Star
Supplied common name "Seastar"
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra atyphoida
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (H.L. Clark, 1916)
Supplied as (Clark, 1916)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Flinders, ocean platforms
Latitude -38.48
Supplied as: "-38.48"
Longitude 145.03
Supplied as: "145.03"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Flinders, ocean platforms
Coordinate precision Unknown
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions SW West Australia
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Perth
    NRM Regions 2017 Swan Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Swan Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Leeuwin-Naturaliste
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Other native forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Unresolved Tenure

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 821.4 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 258.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.4 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 139.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 23.6 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 139.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 258.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.76 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.74 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.42 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.68 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.06 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.62 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.46 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.45 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0539999
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.72 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.68 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.726
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0