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Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324
  • 2. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324 & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Gewann Rosenstein / Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. ronald. fricke @ smns-bw. de; ronfricke @ web. de; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1476 - 6990 Corresponding author. D. Golani: dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il & National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324

Description

Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758 − Yellow boxfish

Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gruvel & Chabanaud 1937).

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Ben-Tuvia & Steinitz 1952), Jordan (Bouchon et al. 1981).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1828), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955, as Ostracion tuberculatus), Eritrea (Guichenot 1847), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1967, as Ostracion tuberculatus), Yemen (Heba et al. 1998).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Tuamotu Archipelago, straying to Hawaiian Islands.

IUCN (2024): Least Concern.

Remarks: Lessepsian migrant in eastern Mediterranean Sea (Bariche 2011; Çinar et al. 2021).

Notes

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2026, Revised checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea, including distribution in the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba, with notes on endemism and Lessepsian migration, pp. 1-257 in Zootaxa 5780 (1) on page 195, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5780.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19175291

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Tetraodontiformes
Family
Ostraciidae
Genus
Ostracion
Species
cubicum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2026

References

  • Gruvel, A. & Chabanaud, P. (1937) Missions A. Gruvel dans le canal de Suez. II. Poissons. Memoires de l'Institut d'Egypte, Nouvelle Serie, 35, 1-30.
  • Ben-Tuvia, A. & Steinitz, H. (1952) Report on a collection of fishes from Eylath (Gulf of Aqaba), Red Sea. Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, 2, 1-12.
  • Bouchon, C., Jaubert, J. & Bouchon-Navaro, Y. (1981) Evolution of a semi-artificial reef built by transplanting coral heads. Tethys, 10 (2), 173-176.
  • Roux-Esteve, R. & Fourmanoir, P. (1955) Poissons captures par la mission de la " Calypso " en Mer Rouge. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique Monaco, Nouvelle Serie, 30 (7), 195-203.
  • Guichenot, A. (1847) Poissons. In: Lefebvre, T., Petit, A., Quartin-Dillon, L. R. & Vignaud (Eds.), Voyage en Abyssinie, execute pendant les annees 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, par une commission scientifique. Part 4. Tome 6. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, pp. 227-238.
  • Heba, H. M., Al - Hassan, A. A. J. & Fareed, K. H. (1998) Some commercial fishes collected from the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Seccion Biologia, 94 (1 - 2), 63-66.
  • Bariche, M. (2011) First record of the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus (Ostraciidae) and additional records of Champsodon vorax (Champsodontidae) from the Mediterranean. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 17 (4), 181-184.
  • Cinar, M. E., Bilecenoglu, M., YokeS, M. B., Ozturk, B., TaSkin, E., Bakir, K. & Acik, S. (2021) Current status (as of end of 2020) of marine alien species of Turkey. PLoS ONE, 16 (5), e 0251086, 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251086