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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ostraciidae

Boxfishes

WoRMS 125611ITIS 173235GBIF 2220key worms:125611
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173235 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lactophrys

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Ostraciidae
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes.W CalCOFI holds 16 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2006, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

16
observations
16
records
4
sampling events
1972–2006
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 4 obs · 4 events · 1998–2006 · larva
    name used: Ostraciidae Boxfishes · code 414

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125611%22