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Roughskin Boxfish

Ostracion trachys

Classification

Ostracion trachys, the rough boxfish or roughskin trunkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. It is found in the Western Indian Ocean around the Mascarenes. Taxonomy Ostracion trachys was first formally described in 1975 by the American ichthyologist John Ernest Randall with its type locality given as a patch reef about 800 m (2,600 ft) northeast of Grand Baie on Mauritius.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 5