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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K108

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra calcar (Lamarck, 1816) | Eight-armed Cushion Star
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource South Australian Museum Adelaide provider for OZCAM
Institution code South Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "SAMA"
Collection South Australian Museum Marine Invertebrates Collection
Supplied collection code "Marine Invertebrates"
Catalog number K108
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:432642"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Collector Zietz, A  
Supplied as "Zietz, A"
Individual count 1
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:33321
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra calcar
Supplied scientific name "Patiriella calcar"
Identified to rank species
Common name Eight-armed Cushion Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Supplied as "Patiriella"
Species Meridiastra calcar
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship (Lamarck, 1816)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -37.16
Supplied as: "-37.16"
Longitude 139.7557
Supplied as: "139.7557"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Guichen Bay
Coordinate precision 0.01
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 1000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 37 10 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 139 45 21 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Upper South East
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Upper South East
    NRM Regions 2010 South East
    NRM Regions 2017 South East
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South East
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Otway
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    WorldClim 2.1: Temperature - annual mean 14.5125 °C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 52.0 %