OSTRACIIDAE, Rafinesque, 1810

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2260

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scientific name	OSTRACIIDAE
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Two species occur in the Gulf of Guinea (Tyler, 1965) and one was reported by Irvine. Acanthostracion guineensis Bleeker, 1865 is reported from Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea but Irvine’s specimen appears to have been a stray A. notacanthus.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Tetraodontiformes
Family	Ostraciidae

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