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Bluetail trunkfish

Ostracion cyanurus

Genus Ostracion. Family Ostraciidae.

Bluetail trunkfish — Photographs 1
Bluetail trunkfish.
Photo: Diego Delso / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Description

Ostracion cyanurus, the bluetail trunkfish, Arabian trunkfish or Red Sea boxfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes.

Traits

Danger
flesh

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Photographs

Bluetail trunkfish — Photographs 2
Bluetail trunkfish. Zoological illustration (detail of a plate).
Cretzschmar, Philipp Jakob; Heyden, Carl Heinrich Georg von; Leuckart, …(Rüppell, Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika) / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Links

Source: {'label': 'Wikipedia', 'href': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracion_cyanurus'}