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Occurrence record: invertebrates:H1941

Preserved specimen of Tosia magnifica (Müller & Troschel, 1842) | Biscuit Star recorded on 1985-09-16
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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 H1941
Occurrence ID TMAG: H1941
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Collector E. Kenchington
Individual count 1
License CC-BY 4.0 (Int)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Occurrence date 1985-09-16
Supplied date "16/09/1985"
End day of year 259
Date precision DAY
Start day of year 259

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia magnifica
Original name usage Tosia magnifica
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia magnifica
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
Supplied as (Muller & Troschel,1842)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Tasmania
Locality Bluff Hill Point: site B
Latitude -41.008
Supplied as: "-41.008"
Longitude 144.608
Supplied as: "144.608"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "GDA94"
Coordinate precision 0.0001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 100.0
Terrestrial true
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU

Additional properties

verbatim identification Tosia magnifica

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    IMCRA v4.0 Meso-Scale Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Franklin
    IMCRA v4.0 Provincial Bioregions (Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia) Tasmanian Shelf Province
    NRM Regions 2010 North West
    NRM Regions 2017 North West NRM Region
    Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions 2023 North West NRM Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 North West NRM Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Tasmanian Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Franklin
    Hydrology
    Drainage Divisions Level 1 Tasmania
    Drainage Divisions Level 2 SMITHTON-BURNIE COAST
    Indigenous
    RATSIB (representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body) Areas 2024 Tasmania
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Tasmania (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Groups Naturally bare - sand, rock, claypan, mudflat
    NVIS 4.1 Major Vegetation Subgroups Naturally bare, sand, rock, claypan, mudflat

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Biodiversity
    Occurrence Density 5684.0 frequency
    Species Richness 1011.0 frequency
    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 1080.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 408.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 10.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 154.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 37.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 155.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 37.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 412.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 13.3 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 53.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 20.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 12.8 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 14.2 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 6.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.0 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 6.9 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 15.9 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.49 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 0.82
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 20.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 15.9 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.0 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.82
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0