Name - Ostracion

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:703987 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Ostracion Linnaeus 1758

• Ostracion Agassiz 1833

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Marine fish of the month. No. 13. Boxfish & cowfish.
• Ostracitoxin: an ichthyotoxic stress secretion of the boxfish, Ostmcion lentiginosus.
• Possible production of substances poisonous to fishes by the box fish, Ostracion lentiginosus Schneider.
• The Hawaiian trunkfishes of the genus Ostracion.
• Species of Taeniacanthus Sumpf, 1871 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Taeniacanthidae) parasitic on boxfishes (Tetraodontiformes: Aracanidae and Ostraciidae) from the Indo-West Pacific region, with descriptions of two new species.

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