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Ostracion meleagris
Enclosed in rigid armor since only their fins, eyes, and mouth are movable. The body is blackish brown with white dots.
Found in reefs and shallow waters.
Most boxfishes when stressed, can secrete a toxic slime from the thin layer of skin covering the carapace. The principal poison, Ostracitoxin, is not know to affect humans.
Spotted on Jun 30, 2014
Submitted on Jul 23, 2014
2 Comments
Hi Kathleen, Thank you very much for the suggestion!
I just joined the mission!!!
Hi Eduardo. Have you seen the mission Global Coral Reef Monitoring? you might like to join it and add you beautiful spottings to it!
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/6529...
Nice collection!