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Occurrence record: Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.3968

Preserved specimen of Meridiastra gunnii (Gray, 1840) | Seastar
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Dataset

Data partner OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider
Data resource Australian Museum provider for OZCAM
Institution code Australian Museum
Supplied institution code "AM"
Collection Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection
Supplied collection code "Invertebrates - Marine & Other"
Catalog number J.3968
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:1046659","urn:catalog:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.3968"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Invertebrates - Marine & Other:J.3968
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Identified by O'Loughlin, Mr P. Mark - Museum Victoria - Marine Invertebrates Laboratory  
Collector 1.  Troughton   2.  Party  
Supplied as "Troughton & Party"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Date identified 2002
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeComments: "New combination for Patiriella gunnii by O’Loughlin & Waters (2004)";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:1004974
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeComments: "New combination for Patiriella gunnii by O’Loughlin & Waters (2004)";
Date precision NOT_SUPPLIED

Taxonomy

Scientific name Meridiastra gunnii
Supplied scientific name "Meridiastra gunnii (Gray, 1840)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Seastar
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Asterinidae
Genus Meridiastra
Species Meridiastra gunnii
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Meridiastra gunnii (Gray, 1840)
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1840)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Gray, 1840)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory Western Australia
Latitude -34.016
Supplied as: "-34.016"
Longitude 122.233
Supplied as: "122.233"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality Lucky Bay, east of Esperence
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "Australia, Western Australia, Lucky Bay, east of Esperence (34° 01' S, 122° 14' E)";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 34° 1' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 122° 14' E

Additional properties

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions Recherche Archipelago
    NRM Regions 2010 South Coast
    NRM Regions 2017 South Coast Region
    Area management
    National Landcare Program Management Units 2018 South Coast Region
    Biodiversity
    IMCRA 4 Regions Southwest Shelf Province
    IMCRA Meso-scale Bioregions WA South Coast
    Marine
    States including coastal waters Western Australia (including Coastal Waters)
    Local Government Areas PSMA 2018 SHIRE OF ESPERANCE

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 691.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 308.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 4.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 73.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 56.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 80.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 28.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 311.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.0 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 41.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 23.3 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.5 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 18.7 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.7 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.3 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.1 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.55 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.04
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.0 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 20.3 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.9 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.53
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.99