Ostracion nasus

Ostracion nasus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tetraodontiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Tetraodontiformes

Familia: Ostraciidae
Subfamilia: Ostraciinae
Genus: Ostracion
Species: Ostracion nasus

Name

• Ostracion nasus Bloch, 1785

Lectotype: ZMB 6804 (stuffed). Paralectotypes: ZMB 6808 (1, stuffed).

Type locality: Nile River mouth, Egypt, eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Synonyms

• Rhynchostracion nasus (Bloch, 1785) -- Allen & Swainston, 1988
  • Phynchostracion nasus (Bloch, 1785) -- Kyushin et al., 1982

Vernacular names

English: Shortnose boxfish

References

• Allen, G. R., Cross, N. J. & Allen, C. J.; 2006: Various families and subfamilies: pp. 1192-1209, 1210-1211, 1218-1224, 1231-1240, 1241-1125, 1282-1283, 1284-1286, 1287-1301, 1302-1309, 1310-1311, 1344-1348, 1425-1434, 1439-1471, 1488-1494, 1714-1715, 1717-1720, 1721-1722, 1723-1728, 1730-1731, 1901-1909. In: Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35 . Fishes.
• Bloch, M. E.; 1785: Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin. 1: 1–136, Pls. 109-144.
• Kyushin, K., Amaoka, K., Nakaya, K., Ida, H., Tanino, Y. & Senta, T. (eds); 1982: Fishes of the South China Sea. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center. 1-333, Pls. 1-291.
• Santini, F., Sorenson, L., Marcroft, T., Dornburg, A. & Alfaro, M. E.; 2012: 126A multilocus molecular phylogeny of boxfishes (Aracanidae, Ostraciidae; Tetraodontiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Available online 2 October 2012, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, abstract
• Ostracion nasus in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.