Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796
Description
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.