- English Common Name
- Yellow Boxfish
- Scientific name
- Ostracion cubicus
- Taxonomy
- Order: Tetraodontiformes, Family: Ostraciidae
- Size
- About 40 cm
- Species Distribution
- Wakayama prefecture and southward, Indo-Pacific
- This Cubic-shaped fish belongs to family Ostraciidae. Its larva has an adorable appearance with black spots on the bright yellow body. As it grows, though, the body turns into plain dark brown.
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- Updated September 2018