Spotted Boxfish (male)

Q: Where can you find Spotted Boxfish (male)?

Spotted Boxfish (male) can be found in: Laccadive Islands, Mariana Islands, Cocos Island, Australia West, Malaysia East, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Easter Island, Malpelo Island, Costa Rica West, Australia North, Marshall Islands, Malaysia West, Galapagos, Hawaii, Pacific East, Colombia West, Somalia East, Vanuatu, Brunei, China, Ecuador, Myanmar, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong, Kenya, India, USA West, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico West, Japan South, India East, India West, Thailand East, Thailand West, Panama West, Australia East, Nicaragua West, Guatemala West, Honduras South, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Vietnam, Seychelles, Cambodia, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Singapore, Tanzania, Malaysia, USA, Honduras, South Africa, Japan, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Mexico, Mozambique, Palau, Philippines, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Tonga and Samoa, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Kiribati, El Salvador, Comoros, Fiji, Thailand, Panama, Pacific Ocean, Colombia, Somalia, Nicaragua, Guatemala.

Ostracion meleagris

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Ostracion meleagris is a species of boxfish found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Other names: White-spotted boxfish.

Description

This species grows to a length of 25 centimetres (9.8 in) TL. Males and females differ in colour: males are blackish on the back with white spots, and have bluish sides with bright yellowish bands and spots. Females and juveniles are dark brown to blackish with white to yellow spots.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific: East Africa to the Mexico, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to New Caledonia and the Tuamoto Islands.

The subspecies Ostracion meleagris camurum is found in the Hawaiian Islands and Ostracion meleagris clippertonense in the Eastern Pacific. Species replaced by Ostracion cyanurus in Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.