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lognosed boxfish

Ostracion nasus

Classification

The Shortnose boxfish (Ostracion nasus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This species is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy The shortnose boxfish was first formally described in 1785 by the German physician and naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch with its type locality given as the Nile Delta, Egypt, probably erroneously.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Cuba · 3