Ostraciidae
Family of boxfishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae[2] 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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Ostraciidae | |
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Lactophrys bicaudalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Ostraciidae Rafinesque, 1810 |
Genera | |
See text.[1] |
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