''Tetrosomus'' is a

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boxfish Ostraciidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes. It contains ...

es native to the

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and western

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Species

There are currently four recognized

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in this genus:Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. ''Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.'' * '' Tetrosomus concatenatus'' (

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, 1785) (Triangular boxfish) * ''

Tetrosomus gibbosus ''Tetrosomus gibbosus'', commonly called camel cowfish because of the hump on its dorsal keel, is one of 22 species in the boxfish family, Ostraciidae. It is a ray finned fish. Other common names include helmet cowfish, humpback turretfish and th ...

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) (Camel cowfish) * '' Tetrosomus reipublicae'' ( Whitley, 1930) (Smallspine turretfish) * ''

Tetrosomus stellifer ''Tetrosomus'' is a genus of boxfishes native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus:Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing ...

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, 1801)

References

Ostraciidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by William John Swainson {{Tetraodontiformes-stub