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The Puffers Called Box-, Cowfishes, family Ostraciidae - English
URL: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/boxfishes.htm

The family is also notable for some members possession of "ostracitoxin" a toxic discharge substance of some trunkfishes. If/when sufficiently disturbed whole tanks, and recirculating systems of livestock have been wiped out. Though this is rare, the cautions listed elsewhere in this piece on netting, acclimation, and tankmates should be heeded if you intend to try a trunk/boxfish.

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Ostraciidae, Boxfish And Cowfish - Diving In Kisite Marine Park - English
URL: http://www.africanmeccasafaris.com/kenya/scubadiving/fishes/ostraciidae.asp

Their body is encasement of bony plates, fused to form a solid box, and the teeth fused to form a beak. The flesh of many is extremely poisonous. There are two common genera, Ostracion, where the box is four-angled, and Lactoria, where the box is five-angled. The Ostracion are around 45 cm in length and are orange, with blue spots. The Lactoria are around 15 cm long with a backward-projecting spine on the dorsal ridge

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Ostraciidae - English
URL: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Actinopt

Phylogenetic tree.

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Boxfish, Members of the Marine Fish Family, Ostraciidae - English
URL: http://www.peteducation.com/category_summary.cfm?cls=16&cat=1859

Boxfish belong to the Ostraciidae family, and are often referred to as Trunkfish or Cowfish. Most of these fish are members of the genera Ostracion, Lactoria, or Tetrasomus. Boxfish reach an average size of three inches in captivity, while in the wild, they can grow to over 19 inches in length.

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Family Ostraciidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=446

Distribution: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. A bony carapace enclosing body. Pelvic skeleton absent. Spinous dorsal lacking. Dorsal fin rays 9-13. Anal fin rays 9-13. Non-protrusible upper jaw. Vertebrae usually 18. About 60 cm maximum length. Some species of trunkfishes secrete ostracitoxin, poisonous to other fishes and, to some extent, even to trunkfishes.

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Ostraciidae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/fostraci.html

The Family Ostraciidae contains these Genera: Acanthostracion, Anoplocapros, Aracana, Caprichthys, Capropygia, Kentrocapros, Lactophrys, Lactoria, Ostracion, Polyplacapros, Rhinesomus, Rhynchostracion, Strophiurichthys, Tetrosomus.

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InterNevod: Кузовковые (Ostraciidae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/ostraciontidae.shtml

У кузовковых панцирь оканчивается за основаниями спинного и анального плавников, охватывая их, и нет отдельных костных пластинок на голом хвостовом стебле. Семейство насчитывает 7 родов и около 20 видов в тропических и субтропических водах Атлантического, Индийского и западной части Тихого океана.

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