Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Ostracion
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).
Ostracion is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region as far east as the eastern Pacific coasts of the Americas.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 1999.R
- 2
- observations
- 2
- records
- 1989–1999
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 1 taxon
- sp Ostracion meleagris Spotted boxfish2
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:206484")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:206484'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/worms-206484.json