Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Ostraciidae

Ostraciidae (boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes, and trunkfishes)

Synonyms: Ostraciontidae

Wikipedia Abstract

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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Genus

Acanthostracion (Boxfish) (7)
Eolactoria (1)
Lactophrys (three-angled trunkfishes) (5)
Lactoria (boxfishes) (4)
Oligolactoria (1)
Ostracion (trunkfishes) (43)
Paracanthostracion (1)
Rhynchostracion (1)
Tetrosomus (Boxfish) (5)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0