Ostracion

Ostracion Temporal range: Thanetian to Present^[1]

Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Ostraciidae
Genus:	Ostracion Nelson, 1994
Species
See text.

The genus Ostracion, is a member of the boxfish family (Ostraciidae) containing nine species.

Species

Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus, 1758.
Bluetail trunkfish, Ostracion cyanurus Rüppell, 1828.
Ostracion immaculatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850.
Whitespotted boxfish, Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796.
Shortnose boxfish, Ostracion nasus Bloch, 1785.
Horn-nosed boxfish, Ostracion rhinorhynchos Bleeker, 1852.
Reticulate boxfish, Ostracion solorensis Bleeker, 1853.
Roughskin trunkfish, Ostracion trachys Randall, 1975.
Whitley's box, Ostracion whitleyi Fowler, 1931.

References

^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2007-12-25.

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). Species of Ostracion in FishBase. November 2006 version.