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Taxon: Family Ostraciidae Rafinesque, 1810 - boxfishes (fish)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Rafinesque, 1810, orth. corr.
Questionably Unavailable original name & rank:  Duméril, 1805: 108. ["Ostéodermes"; no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1].
Original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 39 ("Ordine. Gli Ostracidi."). [family, nom. vernac.]. ≡
Latinized name:  Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse: 90 ("S. F. Ostracidia."). ≡
Subsequent spelling:  Jordan, D.S. 1923. Stanford Univ. Publ. (Biol.) 3 (2): 240 ("Ostraciidæ"). ≡
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133 ("Rafinesque 1810").

Attributes

Justified emendation (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.2] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133 ("stem corrected to Ostraci- by Jordan 1923a:240").
Available family-group name, later latinized [ICZN, 1999: Art. 11.7.2 (<1900)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133 ("Article 11.7.2").
Justified emendation of suffix (: orth. corr.) [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 29.2, 34.1 (family)] Ref: R. van der Laan et al. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 133. [inferred]

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Ostraciinae (Subfamily) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 455. [inferred]
Type: Ostracion (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 456; 4 Mar 2024. [inferred]

Variants

Former rank: Ostraciinae (Subfamily) Ref: R. van der Laan et al. (eds.), 2021: (14 Mar 2025); 19 Mar 2025. [inferred]
Former spelling: Ostraciontidae (Family) Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 455.
Former spelling: Ostraciontidae (Family) Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 521.

Synonyms

Including: Ostraciodontidae (Family) Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 611. [assumed]

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: boxfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 521; ECoF(14 Mar 2025).
: cowfishes and trunkfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 521.
: boxfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2493.
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