boxfishes
cofferfishes
cowfishes
trunkfishes
ostraciidae latin

The Aracanidae are a family of bony fishes related to the boxfishes.

Like pufferfishes and boxfishes it concentrates tetrodotoxin within its body.

They are somewhat more primitive than the true boxfishes, but have a similar protective covering of thickened scale plates.

Acanthostracion is a genus of boxfishes native to the Atlantic Ocean.

In the boxfishes, the plates are all fused together to form a rigid shell enclosing the entire body.

Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes.

Lactoria is a genus of boxfishes.

Tetrosomus is a genus of boxfishes native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

Boxfishes have heavily armoured plate-like scales fused into a solid, triangular, boxlike carapace, from which the fins, tail, eyes and mouth protrude.

Scales vary enormously in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from rigid armour plates in fishes such as shrimpfishes and boxfishes, to microscopic or absent in fishes such as eels and anglerfishes.

The subjects were selected to embody organization, from the scale patterns of boxfishes to the spirals of ammonites to the perfect symmetries of jellies and microorganisms, while images composing each plate are arranged for maximum visual impact.

Anoplocapros is a genus of deepwater boxfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans where they are found mostly around Australia with one species (A. robustus) also found around the Solomon Islands with one specimen also caught in Algoa Bay, South Africa.

Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes.

Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes.

The order includes the diodons, filefishes, globefishes, and trunkfishes.

Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes.

It includes the trunkfishes.

If it rains, take an umbrella, or escape to the warmly glowing aquarium, with its triggerfishes and trunkfishes, puffers and paddlefishes, boas and basilisks.

The Spotted Trunkfish is a member of the family Ostraciidae.

Although the adults are in general quite square in shape, young Ostraciidae are more rounded.

Because of these heavy armoured scales, Ostraciidae are limited to slow movements, but few other fish are able to eat the adults.

Members of the family Ostraciidae secrete an ichthyotoxic mucus from their skin when stressed or disturbed.

This group includes Ostraciidae.

The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis, belongs to the Ostraciidae family and is closely related to boxfish and trunkfish.

They are one of the few predators of toxic animals such as the sea hare Aplysia and boxfish Ostraciidae and have even been reported preying on crown-of-thorns starfish.

The longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta, is a variety of boxfish from the family Ostraciidae, recognizable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head, rather like those of a cow or bull.