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Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796

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Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796.

Pacific Boxfish, Spotted Boxfish, or Spotted Trunkfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Smith in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California, and other locations in tropical eastern Pacific (Thomson et al. 1979) to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–71 m (3–233 ft) (min.: Lieske and Myers 2002; max.: Mundy 2005).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF4EFF5598EAF8C1F80330FC

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF4EFF5598EAF8C1F80330FC (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883192 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF4EFF5598EAF8C1F80330FC.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ostraciidae
Genus
Ostracion
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Shaw
Species
meleagris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.). (1986) Smiths' Sea Fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Lieske, E. & Myers, R. (2002) Coral Reef Fishes. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
  • Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.