Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 224

Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796 .

Pacific Boxfish, Spotted Boxfish, or Spotted Trunkfish. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Smith in Smith and Heemstra 1986). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California, and other locations in tropical eastern Pacific ( Thomson et al. 1979) to Ecuador ( Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–71 m (3–233 ft) (min.: Lieske and Myers 2002; max.: Mundy 2005).