Ostracion meleagris

Pacific Boxfish, Spotted Boxfish, or Spotted Trunkfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Smith in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California, and other locations in tropical eastern Pacific (Thomson et al. 1979) to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1 – 71 m (3 – 233 ft) (min.: Lieske and Myers 2002; max.: Mundy 2005).

Sumber: Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Mexico, north to southern Japan, Ogasawara and Hawaiian islands, south to Great Barrier Reef (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and Rapa. Found in clear lagoon and seaward reefs; juveniles among rocky boulders, adults on reef crests and slopes, 0 – 58 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records