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Boxfishes
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Boxfishes

Ostraciidae

Ostraciidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes. It contains about 23 extant species in 6 extant genera.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 24 known species

Ostracion

genusOstracion

Lactophrys

genusLactophrys

Acanthostracion

genusAcanthostracion

Lactoria

genusLactoria

Turretfishes

genusTetrosomus

Paracanthostracion

genusParacanthostracion

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Boxfishes in Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr — Deliciae naturae selectae (1771)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr · 1771 · p.267

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47529.