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Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Tetraodontiformes
Family:
Ostraciidae
Genus:
Ostracion
Species:
meleagris
Common:
Whitespotted boxfish
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Southeast
Indian Ocean, Eastern
Indian Ocean, Western
Pacific, Eastern Central
Pacific, Northwest
Pacific, Southeast
Pacific, Southwest
Pacific, Western Central
Asia - Inland Waters
Tricas, T. C., Boyle, K. S. 2014. Acoustic Behaviors in Hawaiian Coral Reef Fish Communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 511: 1-16.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Lobel, P. S. 1996. Spawning Sound of the Trunkfish, Ostracion meleagris (Ostraciidae). Biological Bulletin, 191(2): 308-309.
Parmentier, E., Solagna, L., Bertucci, F., Fine, M. L., Nakae, M., Compère, P., Smeets, S., Raick, X., Lecchini, D. 2019. Simultaneous Production of Two Kinds of Sounds in Relation with Sonic Mechanism in the Boxfish Ostracion meleagris and O. cubicus. Scientific Reports, 9(4962).