Ostraciidae

Yellow Boxfish

Ostracion cubicum

Fish Reaching Forty Five Centimeters in the Persian Gulf

• Yellow
• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• East Asia
• Deep-bodied
• Medium
• Tropical fish

The yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicum) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This species is found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, although since 2011 it has also been occasionally recorded in the Levantine waters of the Mediterranean Sea which it likely entered via the Suez Canal. The species is present in the aquarium trade.