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Ostracion cubicus

Black-spotted Boxfish

IUCN: least concernmarine

Linnaeus, 1758WoRMS treats this as a synonym of Ostracion cubicum.WoRMS 219911 ↗

32

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1900

First collected

1991

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Ostracion cubicus, most mentions first.

  1. 2002

    Nonindigenous marine species at Waikiki and Hawaii Kai, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & L.G. Eldredge · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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  2. 2001

    Marine species survey of Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean, June 2000

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice & D. Minton · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1900s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1900 by A. Seale (Guam).