Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796

Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796. Pacific Boxfish, Spotted Boxfish, or Spotted Trunkfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Smith in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Tetraodontiformes
Ostraciidae
Ostracion
Ostracion meleagris
Baja
Milton
Myers
Pacific
Scripps
Yukon
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5609950
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609950
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Summary:Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796. Pacific Boxfish, Spotted Boxfish, or Spotted Trunkfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Smith in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California, and other locations in tropical eastern Pacific (Thomson et al. 1979) to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–71 m (3–233 ft) (min.: Lieske and Myers 2002; max.: Mundy 2005). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 224, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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