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Occurrence record: Invertebrates:F71495

Preserved specimen of Ophioplocus bispinosus H.L. Clark, 1918 | Brittle Star recorded on 1988-02-18
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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 F71495
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:NMV:Invertebrates:PreservedSpecimen:F71495
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations Wet|ethanol 70%
Identified by Dr Tim D O'Hara - Museum Victoria  
Collector Marine Science Laboratories
Sex Unknown
Individual count 1
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 1990

Event

Occurrence date 1988-02-18
Supplied date "1988-02-18T00:00:00\1988-02-18T00:00:00"
Date precision DAY

Taxonomy

Higher classification Echinodermata | Asterozoa | Ophiuroidea | Myophiuroidea | Ophintegrida | Amphilepidida | Ophionereidina | Ophiolepidoidea | Hemieuryalidae
Scientific name Ophioplocus bispinosus
Supplied scientific name "Ophioplocus bispinosus Clark, 1918"
Identified to rank species
Common name Brittle Star
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Ophiuroidea
Order Ophiurida
Supplied as "Amphilepidida"
Family Ophiolepididae
Supplied as "Hemieuryalidae"
Genus Ophioplocus
Species Ophioplocus bispinosus
Name match metric canonicalMatch
Scientific name authorship H.L. Clark, 1918
Supplied as Clark, 1918
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Nomenclatural code ICZN

Geospatial

Higher geography Australia | Victoria
Country Australia
State or Territory Victoria
Locality West head, Flinders Ocean Beach
Latitude -38.48
Supplied as: "-38.48"
Longitude 145.03
Supplied as: "145.03"
Datum EPSG:4326
Supplied datum: "WGS84"
Verbatim locality West head, Flinders Ocean Beach
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
    Directory of Important Wetlands Western Port
    NRM Regions 2010 Port Phillip and Western Port
    NRM Regions 2017 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 Port Phillip and Western Port
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Bass Strait Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions Victorian Embayments
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Victoria (including Coastal Waters)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Native forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Other native forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Unresolved Tenure

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 821.4 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 258.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 8.4 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 139.4 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 23.6 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 139.4 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 22.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 258.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 14.76 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 47.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 21.74 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 14.42 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 16.68 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.06 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 10.62 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 7.46 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.45 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.0539999
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 23.72 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 18.4 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 10.68 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.726
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 1.0