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Occurrence record: Ichthyology:IA.5462

Preserved specimen of Aracana ornata (Gray, 1838) | Ornate Cowfish recorded on 1932
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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 Ichthyology Collection
Supplied collection code "Ichthyology"
Catalog number IA.5462
Other catalog numbers ["ecatalogue.irn:8168202","urn:catalog:AM:Ichthyology:IA.5462"]
Occurrence ID urn:lsid:ozcam.taxonomy.org.au:AM:Ichthyology:IA.5462
Record type Preserved specimen
Supplied basis "PreservedSpecimen"
Preparations ecatalogue.PreStorageMedium: "F";
Collector Neill, W  
Supplied as "NEILL, W"
License CC-BY 3.0 (Au)
Presence/Absence PRESENT
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "N";

Event

Event ID urn:australianmuseum.net.au:Events:8060020
Identification remarks ecatalogue.IdeConfidence: "N";
Occurrence date [date not supplied] Year: 1932, Month: , Day:
Supplied date "1932"
Date precision YEAR

Taxonomy

Scientific name Aracana ornata
Supplied scientific name "Aracana flavigaster (Gray, 1838)"
Identified to rank species
Common name Ornate Cowfish
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Tetraodontiformes
Family Aracanidae
Supplied as "Ostraciidae"
Genus Aracana
Species Aracana ornata
Name match metric exactMatch
Accepted name Aracana flavigaster (Gray, 1838)
Scientific name authorship (Gray, 1838)
Name parse type SCIENTIFIC
Name according to (Gray, 1838)

Geospatial

Country Australia
State or Territory South Australia
Latitude -34.566
Supplied as: "-34.566"
Longitude 135.95
Supplied as: "135.95"
Datum EPSG:4326
Verbatim locality PORT LINCOLN : LOUTH BAY
Location remarks ecatalogue.LocCollectionEventLocal: "[IA.5462] Australia, South Australia, PORT LINCOLN : LOUTH BAY (34° 34' S, 135° 57' E) 1932 - 1932, Neill, W(Collector)";
Coordinate precision 0.001
Terrestrial true
Verbatim latitude 34° 34' S
Biome TERRESTRIAL
Marine false
Country Code AU
Verbatim longitude 135° 57' E

Additional properties

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dcterms:type PhysicalObject
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dcterms type PhysicalObject

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    Additional political boundaries information

    Area Management
    Australian Coral Ecoregions South-east Australia
    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)
    Vegetation
    Australia's Indigenous forest estate (2013) v2.0 Non-Indigenous, Non forest
    Forests of Australia (2013) v2.0 Non Forest
    Tenure of Australia's forests (2013) v2.0 Private Freehold

    Environmental sampling for this location

    Climate
    Precipitation - annual (Bio12) 415.0 mm
    Precipitation - coldest quarter (Bio19) 187.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest period (Bio14) 2.0 mm
    Precipitation - driest quarter (Bio17) 42.0 mm
    Precipitation - seasonality (Bio15) 57.0 mm
    Precipitation - warmest quarter (Bio18) 43.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest period (Bio13) 17.0 mm
    Precipitation - wettest quarter (Bio16) 189.0 mm
    Radiation - annual mean (Bio20) 17.8 MJ/m2/day
    Radiation - seasonality (Bio23) 41.0
    Radiation - warmest quarter (Bio26) 25.5 MJ/m2/day
    Temperature - annual mean (Bio01) 16.3 degrees C
    Temperature - annual range (Bio07) 19.5 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest period min (Bio06) 7.3 degrees C
    Temperature - coldest quarter mean (Bio11) 12.2 degrees C
    Temperature - diurnal range mean (Bio02) 10.0 degrees C
    Temperature - driest quarter mean (Bio09) 20.5 degrees C
    Temperature - isothermality (Bio03) 0.52 %
    Temperature - seasonality (Bio04) 1.12
    Temperature - warmest period max (Bio05) 26.8 degrees C
    Temperature - warmest quarter (Bio10) 20.5 degrees C
    Temperature - wettest quarter mean (Bio08) 12.2 degrees C
    Substrate
    Moisture Index - annual mean (Bio28) 0.37
    Moisture Index - highest quarter mean (Bio32) 0.8