Back Ostraciidae Afrikaans سمكة الصندوق Arabic سمكة الصندوق ARZ Кузаўковыя Byelorussian Ostràcids Catalan Ostraciidae CEB Kofferfische German Bokso (fiŝo) Esperanto Ostraciidae Spanish Ostraciidae Basque
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Ostraciidae Rafinesque, 1810 |
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See text.[1]
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Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae[2] is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes. It contains about 23 extant species in 6 extant genera.
- ^ Matsuura K (2014). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62 (1): 72–113. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5.
- ^ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons. p. 521. ISBN 978-1-118-3423-36.