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Whitley's Boxfish

Ostracion whitleyi

Classification

Whitley's boxfish (Ostracion whitleyi) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This fish is found in the Eastern Central Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Whitley's boxfish was first formally described in 1931 by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler with its type locality given as the Marquesas Islands.

Distribution

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United States of America · 65France · 18