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no rank: sharks (Selachii)

Superordinate: Galeomorphii

Order: Ground Sharks (Carcharhiniformes)

Family: Requiem Sharks (Carcharhinidae)

Genus: Carcharhinus

Species: Blacktip Reef Shark

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The blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a shark from the family of requiem or gray sharks.

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Yellow-brown boxfish, common boxfish, yellow boxfish (D), yellow boxfish, cube trunkfish (UK)

Occurrence: Southeast Asia

Size: up to 50 cm

Lactoria, Ostracion, Rhynchostracion, Tetrosomus

The boxfish has protective armor

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Yellow-brown boxfish

The boxfish are a family of angular looking fish from the order of the puffer fish relatives. The form "Ostraciontidae" used most often in the past is wrong; etymological origin is ὀστράκιον "small shell, crab shell". Wikipedia

Scientific name: Ostraciidae

Order: Tetraodontiformes

Higher classification: Tetraodontiformes

Raqnk: family

Family: boxfish

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The box fish (Ostraciidae) are a family of angular-looking fish from the order of the puffer fish relatives (Tetraodontiformes). The form "Ostraciontidae" used most often in the past is wrong; etymological origin is ὀστράκιον "small (egg, mussel, clay) shell, crab shell".

Horned cow boxfish

White-point boxfish (Ostracion meleagris)

Mauritius boxfish

(Ostracion trachys)

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The zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum; also: leopard shark) belongs to the nurse shark species (Orectolobiformes) and is the only species of the family Stegostomatidae.