Tetrosomus
Tetrosomus
Genus of fishes
Tetrosomus is a genus of boxfishes native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
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Tetrosomus | |
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Tetrosomus gibbosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Ostraciidae |
Genus: | Tetrosomus Swainson, 1839 |
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There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1][2][3]
- Tetrosomus concatenatus (Bloch, 1785) (Triangular boxfish)
- Tetrosomus gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Camel cowfish)
- Tetrosomus reipublicae (Whitley, 1930) (Smallspine turretfish)
- Tetrosomus stellifer (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). Species of Tetrosomus in FishBase. December 2015 version.
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