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Occurrence record: Marine Invertebrates:K3191

Preserved specimen of Tosia australis Gray, 1840 | Biscuit 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 K3191
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:380330"]
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Dry Specimen
Identified by Holmes, N  
Collector Holmes, N  
Supplied as "Holmes, N"
Individual count 1
License CC-BY
Type PhysicalObject
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Supplied as present

Event

Event ID urn:emu.sam.sa.gov.au:Event:29431
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Tosia australis
Supplied scientific name "Tosia australis Gray, 1840"
Identified to rank species
Common name Biscuit Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Tosia
Species Tosia australis
Name match metric exactMatch
Scientific name authorship Gray, 1840
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -34.621
Supplied as: "-34.621"
Longitude 135.47
Supplied as: "135.47"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Coffin Bay
Coordinate precision 0.001
Coordinate uncertainty (in metres) 2000.0
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 34 37 16 S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 135 28 E

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    CAPAD 2016 Marine Thorny Passage
    CAPAD 2020 Marine Thorny Passage
    Directory of Important Wetlands Coffin Bay Coastal Wetland System
    NRM Regions 2010 Eyre Peninsula
    NRM Regions 2017 Eyre Peninsula
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Eyre Peninsula
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Spencer Gulf Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Eyre
    Marine
    States including coastal waters South Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Political
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 THE DC OF LOWER EYRE PENINSULA
    PSMA State Electoral Boundaries (2018) LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Eucalypt Mallee Woodland
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Other Crown Land
    Vegetation types - native Mallee woodlands and shrublands
    Vegetation types - present Mallee woodlands and shrublands

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 506.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 241.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 43.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 65.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 44.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 248.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.7 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 42.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.4 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.1 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.6 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 9.5 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.0 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.51 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.07
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.3 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 20.1 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.3 degrees C
    WorldClim: Temperature - isothermality 51.0 %
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.44
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.93
    Elevation 0.0 m