Triggerfishes, Boxfishes, and Filefishes
Balistoidei
Balistoidei, or Sclerodermi, is a suborder of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, the order which includes the pufferfishes, ocean sunfishes, boxfishes and related fishes. This suborder comprises two extant and three extinct families, the extant species in this taxon are widespread throughout the tropical and temperate seas of the world.
4 branches of this suborder, most-observed first · about 184 known species
Filefishes
familyMonacanthidae
Triggerfishes
familyBalistidae
Boxfishes
familyOstraciidae
Deepwater Boxfishes
familyAracanidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1303583.