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Spotted Trunkfish
Fish. Spotted trunkfish are shy but curious fish that swim slowly above reefs, often hovering under ledges or over small holes. They prefer warm temperatures between 22 and 26 degrees C (72 and 79 F) and depths between 4.
see trunkfish.
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Trunkfish - any member of a family of fishes, also called boxfishes, that have short triangular bodies covered by firmly united hexagonal bony plates. Only the jaw, the bases of the fins, and the tail protrude fr...
The longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758), is also known as the long-horn, longhorned, long-horned cowfish, horned boxfish or trunkfish and is a type of boxfish in the Ostraciidi family (~25 species known) is easily identified by its ...
puffers, triggerfishes, and trunkfishes)
FAMILY: Diodontidae (burrfishes and porcupinefishes)
GENUS/SPECIES: Diodon holocanthus ...
Fish that swim actively using the caudal fin, but which flex the fin in a manner that leaves the body relatively steady, such as Boxfish and Trunkfish, see image below, are termed 'Ostraciform swimmers'.
 See also: Boxfish, Coral, Cowfish, Mollusk, Crustacean
  
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