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Species profile

Ornate Cowfish

Aracana ornata

Manually classified in SNAP.

4
Media items
Photos and videos
3
Dives
Distinct encounters
3
Locations
1 trip
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Archive ecology

Conditions where we found it

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Indicative archive pattern · 4 observations / 3 dives

Calendar-quarter observations

Apr–Jun2
Jul–Sep2

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Morning · 2Night · 2
  • • These distributions describe photographs in SNAP, not a species’ complete biological range.
  • • No direct or profile-estimated depths are available yet.
  • • Time-of-day groups use the camera clock and are not corrected for sunrise, sunset, or timezone.
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Creature trail

A life through time and place

3 encounters

  1. #3 · Aug 10, 2024

    Flinders

    Flinders

  2. #2 · Sep 16, 2023

    Flinders Pier

    Flinders Pier

  3. #1 · Jun 26, 2023

    Edithburg Pier

    Edithburg Pier · Whyalla Trip - June 2023

Species field guide

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Field notes

Encounter profile

Manually classified in SNAP.

Aracana ornata - Aracana is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Aracanidae, the deepwater boxfishes or temperate boxfishes. These fishes are endemic to the waters around Australia.

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Life found nearby

Species photographed on the same dives come first, followed by close taxonomic neighbours.

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Common Sea Dragon2 shared dives
Common Sea Dragon
Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
Flinders Pier
Mosaic Leatherjacket1 shared dive
Mosaic Leatherjacket
Eubalichthys mosaicus
Edithburg Pier
Shorthead Seahorse1 shared dive
Shorthead Seahorse
Hippocampus breviceps
Edithburg Pier
Verco's Nudibranch1 shared dive
Verco's Nudibranch
Tambja verconis
Flinders
Wandering Sea Anemone1 shared dive
Wandering Sea Anemone
Phlyctenactis tuberculosa
Flinders Pier
Shaws CowfishSame genus
Shaws Cowfish
Aracana aurita

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Whyalla Trip - June 2023
Edithburg Pier / Jun 26, 2023 / 2 records
Flinders
Flinders / Aug 10, 2024
Flinders Pier
Flinders Pier / Sep 16, 2023