Striped Boxfish

Ostracion solorense has nine soft rays in both the dorsal and anal fins. The overall colour of the males varies from bluish-grey to blackish with thin light blue sinuous lines on the back, a wide dark stripe with paler wavy lines on the upper flank and white spots withnblack marginms along the flanks. The females have black lines on the upper body, the sides are yellowish to greenish brown with a network of black lines. There is a characteristic bony protuberance above the upper lip. This species has a maximum published total length of 12 cm (4.7 in).

Ostracion solorense is found in the eastern Indian Ocean at Rowley Shoals and Christmas Island and in the Pacific as far east as Palau and Fiji. The reticulate boxfish is found at depths between 1 and 20 m (3 ft 3 in and 65 ft 7 in) on coastal reefs in clear waters.

Ostracion solorense is classified in the genus Ostracion, this name means "little box" and is an allusion to the shape of the body of its type species, O. cubicum. The specific name, solorense means "of Solor", the type locality.