Aracanidae

Jewelry boxfish ( Aracana ornata )

The Aracaninae are a subfamily of the boxfish ( Ostraciidae ). They are regarded as the original and also referred to as Urkofferfische or for the fabulous color drawing of some species as jewelry box fish. Some scientists give them the rank of a separate family Aracanidae.

Features

The fish generally have a hochrückigere shape than the other species of the subfamily, the Ostraciinae. Your tank closes the base of the dorsal and anal fin not with. On its ventral side they usually have a more or less clearly developed, central edge that is missing the Ostraciinae. Your caudal fin has eleven primary fin rays. They are 11-33 inches long.

Dissemination

Most types of Aracaninae live in the seas around southern Australia in depths up to 200 meters. Further, some species occur in Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, in Japan and in the East China Sea, in the Maldives, in the western Indian Ocean at Maskarenenrücken between Mauritius and the Seychelles, before in Mozambique and South Africa.

System

• Genus Anoplocapros Anoplocapros amygdaloides Fraser -Brunner, 1941
• Anoplocapros inermis ( Fraser -Brunner, 1935)
• Anoplocapros lenticularis ( Richardson, 1841)
• Anoplocapros robustus ( Fraser -Brunner, 1941)

• Aracana aurita ( Shaw, 1798)
• Jewelry boxfish ( Aracana ornata ) (Gray, 1838)

• Caprichthys Gymnura McCulloch & Waite, 1915

• Capropygia unistriata ( Kaup, 1855)

• Kentrocapros aculeatus ( Houttuyn, 1782 )
• Kentrocapros eco ( Phillipps, 1932)
• Kentrocapros flavofasciatus ( Mr. Kamohara, 1938)
• Kentrocapros pink pinto (Smith, 1949)

• Polyplacapros tyleri

Phylogeny

The Aracaninae are in the fossil record with the genera Plectocretacius from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon and with Eolactoria and Proaracana from the Middle Eocene of Monte Bolca.