Spotted Boxfish

Ostracion meleagris Shaw 1796

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Ostracion meleagris (Spotted Boxfish) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family boxfishes.

EOL has data for 17 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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25 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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The Hawaiian Islands
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/5855811
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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lagoon
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000038
- Definition: A sheet of saline water separated from the open sea by sand or shingle banks. The sheet of water between an offshore reef, especially of coral and mainland. The sheet of water within a ring or horseshoe shaped atoll.
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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subtropical
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000205
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://environmentontology.org/ Ontology Source: http://envo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/envo/envo.owl
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Haliotrema trochaderoi Klassen 1993
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Paradiscogaster macrostomus (Shimazu & Kamegai 1990) Cribb, Anderson & Bray
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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497 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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22.496 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of spotted boxfish. View this species on GBIF

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