Photo: MDC Seamarc Maldives · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 16 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, reefs
The spotted boxfish has its body enclosed in a shell of fused plates, black with white dots for the male. It releases a toxin when stressed.
Did you know?
In Tahitian: momoa.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Poisson-coffre ponctué.
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