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Acanthostracion
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Acanthostracion

Acanthostracion is a genus of boxfishes native to the Atlantic Ocean.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Scrawled Cowfish

speciesAcanthostracion quadricornis

Honeycomb Cowfish

speciesAcanthostracion polygonium

Island Cowfish

speciesAcanthostracion notacanthus

West African Cowfish

speciesAcanthostracion guineense

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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 49434.