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Occurrence record: MIZ:Z99311

Preserved specimen of Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray, 1840) recorded on 1966-01-30
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Western Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Western Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "WAM"
Collection Western Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "MIZ"
Catalog number Z99311
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:taxonomy.org.au:MIZ:99311
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations 75% Ethanol
Identified by Hodgkin, E.P.  
Collector Hodgkin, E.P.
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 1966-01-01

Event

Occurrence date Year: 1966, Month: , Day:
Supplied as year:1966  month:3  day:30 
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Coscinasterias calamaria
Identified to rank species
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Forcipulatida
Family Asteriidae
Genus Coscinasterias
Species Coscinasterias calamaria
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1840)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Habitat Marine
Latitude -32.1329
Supplied as: "-32.1329"
Longitude 115.7467
Supplied as: "115.7467"
Datum EPSG:4326
Coordinate precision Unknown
Location according to GE
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 32°07`58.56"S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 115°44`47.97"E

User flagged issues 

    Data quality tests

    Test name Result
    Coordinate uncertainty meters invalid Warning
    Geodetic datum assumed WGS84 Warning
    Name not supplied Warning
    Occurrence status inferred from individual count Warning
    Recorded date mismatch Warning
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    Outlier information  

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Leeuwin-Naturaliste
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Southwest Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 Perth
    NRM Regions 2017 Swan Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 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
    Indigenous
    Indigenous Land Use Agreements Whadjuk People Indigenous Land Use Agreement
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 South West
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 CITY OF COCKBURN
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 14367.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1786.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 732.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 388.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 1.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 39.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 85.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 44.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 36.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 413.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 18.5 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 38.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.0 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 18.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 20.4 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 9.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 14.1 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.7 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 23.1 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.48 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.26
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 29.9 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 23.3 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 14.4 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.51
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0