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Species related to Ostracion cubicum: [ 5 ] records

tuberculatus, Ostracion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:331 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India. No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:599 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Ostracion tuberculatus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Cheng & Zhou 1997:472 [ref. 26385]). •See Lindberg et al. 1997:106 [ref. 23547]. •Synonym of Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Dor 1984:282 [ref. 29757], Randall et al. 1990:469 [ref. 15987], Fricke 1999:597 [ref. 24106], Mundy 2005:531 [ref. 28379], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:356 [ref. 28867], Golani & Fricke 2018:180 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:136 [ref. 37020]). •Synonym of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758 -- (Heemstra 2022:450 [ref. 40260]). Current status: Synonym of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.

cubicus, Ostracion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:332 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India. No types known. Genus Ostracion is neuter; therefore species epithet (an adjective) must be cubicum. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:599 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Dor 1984:282 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:362 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:892 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:154 [ref. 25477], Paulin et al. 1989:244 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:69 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:469 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:415 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:168 [ref. 25479], Goren & Dor 1994:74 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:399 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:620 [ref. 27969], Lindberg et al. 1997:104 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:244 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:238 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:408 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:469 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:287 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:597 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:754 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1416 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:464 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:281 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:22 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:124 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3950 [ref. 26317], Nakabo 2002:1416 [ref. 26193], Itoh et al. 2002:144 [ref. 26531], Allen & Adrim 2003:65 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:225 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:78 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:32 [ref. 27624], Heemstra et al. 2004:3332 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:640 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:531 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1906 [ref. 29090], Randall 2007:485 [ref. 30952], Fricke 2008:58 [ref. 30182], Fricke et al. 2009:119 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:333 [ref. 31171], Motomura et al. 2010:236 [ref. 31256], Bariche 2011:181 [ref. 41525], Caratini & Soriano 2011:79 [ref. 39915], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1082 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:235 [ref. 32988], Matsuura 2014:17 [ref. 33576], Fricke et al. 2014:197 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:119 [ref. 36167], Stewart & Roberts 2015:1728 [ref. 34322], Koeda et al. 2016:113 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:18 [ref. 35354], Motomura et al. 2017:235 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:383 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:180 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:25 [ref. 36883], Eagderi et al. 2019:136 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:330 [ref. 36673], Matsuura in Koeda & Ho 2019:1306 [ref. 42393], Zajonz et al. 2019:102 [ref. 36871], Bariche & Fricke 2020:148 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:201 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:614 [ref. 37272], Badreddine & Bitar 2021:20 [ref. 38744], Golani 2021:88 [ref. 38303] as cubucus, Allen & Erdmann 2024:1247 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:82 [ref. 41255], Luo et al. 2024:10 [ref. 41630]). •Valid as Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758 -- (Sonoyama et al. 2020:129 [ref. 37637], Kovačić et al. 2021:63 [ref. 39014], Matsuura in Motomura et al. 2021:77 [ref. 38121], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:299 [ref. 41223], Heemstra 2022:450 [ref. 40260], Pillai et al. 2025:564 [ref. 42553], Toyama et al. 2025:41 [ref. 42086]). Current status: Valid as Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Ostraciidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Saint Brandon's Shoals (Cargados Carajos), Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) and Persian Gulf east to Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to Korea, Pacific coast of Ibaraki Prefecture (Japan) and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Lord Howe Island (Australia), northern New Zealand, Kermadec Islands and Rapa (French Polynesia); straying to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.); eastern Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea migrant). IUCN (2024): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.

cubitus, Ostracion Linnaeus [C.] 1766:410 [Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 1); ref. 2786] Incorrect subsequent spelling of Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758. •In the synonymy of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Misspelling. Current status: Synonym of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.

tetragonus, Ostracion (Ostracion) Bleeker [P.] 1874:70 [Poissons de Madagascar et de l'Ile la Réunion Part 4; ref. 443] Name only, no description. For date of publication (as laterst in Dec. 1974), see Kottelat 2013 [ref. 32740]. •In the synonymy of Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Fricke 1999:598 [ref. 24106], Allen et al. 2006:1906 [ref. 29090]). •In the synonymy of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Nomen Nudum. Current status: Synonym of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.

argus, Ostracion Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1828:4, Pl. 1 (fig. 1) [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 255 (1 of 2). Paralectotypes: SMF 6782 (1, dry), 27093 (1, dry). Also see Ostracion argus Bloch & Schneider 1801. Lectotype established by Dor 1984:282 [ref. 29757] if not designated earlier. •Synonym of Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Dor 1984:283 [ref. 29757]). •See Myers 1999:287 [ref. 23965]. •Synonym of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Current status: Synonym of Ostracion cubicum Linnaeus 1758. Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.