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Taxon: Family Ostraciidae Rafinesque, 1810 (fish)
Classification by:

living organisms see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Superkingdom Eukaryotae see Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925
     Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
       Subkingdom Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
         Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
           Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates see Infraphylum Vertebrata Lamarck, 1801
             Class Osteichthyes Huxley, 1880 - bony fishes and tetrapods see Clade Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 [Moore & Near 2020]
               Subclass Actinopterygii Woodward, 1891 - ray-finned fishes see Class Actinopterygii Woodward, 1891
                 Order Tetraodontiformes Berg, 1937 - plectognaths
                   Suborder Balistoidei
                     Family Ostraciidae Rafinesque, 1810 - boxfishes
                       1 Genus Rhinesomus Swainson, 1839 see Genus Lactophrys Swainson, 1839
                       2 Genus Lactophrys Swainson, 1839 - trunkfish
                       3 Genus Lactoria Jordan & Fowler, 1902
                       4 Genus Aracana Gray, 1835, nom. protect., orth. praeval.
                       5 Genus Acanthostracion Bleeker, 1865
                       6 Genus Tetrosomus Swainson, 1839
                       7 Genus Strophiurichthys Fraser-Brunner, 1935 see Genus Anoplocapros Kaup, 1855

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