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The spotted or white-spotted boxfish (Ostracion meleagris), is a species of boxfish found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is found on reefs at depths of from 1 to 30 metres (3.3 to 98.4 feet). This species grows to a length of 25 centimetres (9.8 inches). Males and females differ in colour: males are blackish on the back with white spots ...
Ostracion immaculatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 (Bluespotted boxfish) Ostracion meleagris G. Shaw, 1796 (White-spotted boxfish) Ostracion nasus Bloch, 1785 (Shortnose boxfish) Ostracion rhinorhynchos Bleeker, 1851 (Horn-nosed boxfish) Ostracion solorensis Bleeker, 1853 (Reticulate boxfish) Ostracion trachys J. E. Randall, 1975 (Roughskin trunkfish)
Lactoria cornuta. (Linnaeus, 1758) The longhorn cowfish (Lactoria cornuta), also called the horned boxfish, is a species of boxfish from the family Ostraciidae, recognizable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head, rather like those of a cow or bull. [1] They are a resident of the Indo-Pacific region and can grow up to 50 cm ...
Characteristics. Anoplocapros boxfishes have a deep, slightly compressed, oval -shaped bodies which have an obvious ridge on the midline of the dorsal and ventral surfaces. There is also a ridge along the midline of each flank. The dorsal profile of the head is flat from the snout to the start of the dorsal ridge, although in males they become ...
Description. The trunkfish has small diffuse white spots. Two areas, located on the pectoral region and halfway between gills and posterior end of carapace, contain dark-edged hexagonal plates that together form chain-like markings. [3] It can reach a length of 30–50 cm and weigh up to 3.3 kg. [4]
The yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicum) is a species of boxfish found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Recorded occasionally since 2011 in the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea which it likely entered via the Suez Canal, it is a species appreciated in the aquarium trade. [1]
The spotted trunkfish (Lactophrys bicaudalis) is a member of the family Ostraciidae. It lives in reefs throughout the Caribbean, as well as the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. It gets its name from the black spots on its whitish or yellow-golden body. In Caribbean countries, it is colloquially known as the boxfish, cow-fish or shellfish. [2][3]
The species has the compact body of many Tetraodontiformes, with small fins and a protruding snout. Adults may reach a length of 33 cm. [1] White-barred boxfishes bare vein-like ossified plates under their bodies, making them mostly immobile other than the fins, gills, mouth, and tail.