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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F93165

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra medius (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003) | Seastar recorded on 2002-05-02
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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 F93165
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F93165
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by P M. O'Loughlin  
Collector Museum Victoria  
Supplied as "Dr Tim D O'Hara - Museum Victoria"
Sex Unknown
Individual count 3
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
Date identified 2002

Event

Occurrence date 2002-05-02
Supplied date "2002-05-02T00:00:00\2002-05-02T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Asteroidea | Valvatacea | Valvatida | Asterinidae
Scientific name Meridiastra medius
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra medius (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra medius
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship (O'Loughlin, Waters & Roy, 2003)
Supplied as (O'Loughlin et al., 2003)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality Point Addis
Latitude -38.4
Supplied as: "-38.4"
Longitude 144.25
Supplied as: "144.25"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality Point Addis
Minimum depth in metres 8
Maximum depth in metres 13
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 South-east Australia
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Point Addis
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Point Addis
    NRM Regions 2010 Corangamite
    NRM Regions 2017 Corangamite
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Corangamite
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Central Victoria
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)