Ostracion
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| Ostracion Temporal range: Thanetian to Present[1] |
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| Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Ostraciidae |
| Genus: | Ostracion Nelson, 1994 |
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The genus Ostracion, is a member of the boxfish family (Ostraciidae) containing nine species.
[edit] Species
- Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus, 1758.
- Bluetail trunkfish, Ostracion cyanurus Rüppell, 1828.
- Ostracion immaculatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850.
- Whitespotted boxfish, Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796.
- Shortnose boxfish, Ostracion nasus Bloch, 1785.
- Horn-nosed boxfish, Ostracion rhinorhynchos Bleeker, 1852.
- Reticulate boxfish, Ostracion solorensis Bleeker, 1853.
- Roughskin trunkfish, Ostracion trachys Randall, 1975.
- Whitley's box, Ostracion whitleyi Fowler, 1931.
[edit] References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Ostracion in FishBase. November 2006 version.
