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Ostraciidae
spiny boxfish
Lactoria diaphana
Spine on back with short eye spines
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Deep-bodied
Mediumspiny boxfish is known from Southeast Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Ostraciidae
- Genus
- Lactoria
- Maximum length
- 34 cm
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Southeast Atlantic: off Swakopmund, Namibia (Ref. 11228 ). Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific: South Africa east through Indonesia to the Easter Island and Peru, north to southern Japan, Hawaii, and southern California, south to New Caledonia, New South Wales and Kermadec Islands (Ref. 8879 ).
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