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Ostraciidae
shortnose boxfish
Ostracion nasus
Mouth protuberance with concave snout
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Mediumshortnose boxfish is a marine fish of Western Pacific. The species occupies marine waters. The largest recorded length is 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Ostraciidae
- Genus
- Ostracion
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: Sri Lanka (Ref. 1550 ) and Sumatra to Fiji, north to the Philippines; Palau and Truk in Micronesia. Matsuura 1999, pers. comm. strongly doubts its distribution in the southern GBR (as reported in Lieske & Meyers 1994, Ref. 9710 ) and does not know of any reliable record of this species from East Africa.
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