Eastern smooth boxfish

The Eastern smooth boxfish lives in the demersal, marine, depth range 10 - 300 m environment.

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis, at 8.5 m. Blotched hawkfish, Cirrhitchthys aprinus at 7.3 m. Schooling bannerfish, Heniochus diphreutes, with mado, Atypichthys strigatus, at 7.7 m. More

Eastern smooth boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis, at 6 m. Comb wrasse, Coris picta, at 5.9 m. Dusky butterflyfish, Chaetodon flavirostris, at 5.5 m. Klein's butterflyfish, Chaetodon kleinii at 5.1 m. More

The Eastern Smooth Boxfish is commonly seen washed up on in south eastern Australia. The hard 'discus-like' carapace is quite distinctive. More

* Eastern Smooth Boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis (Fraser-Brunner, 1935) * Find a fish * Fishes what's on Baby Crocodiles Surviving Australia More

Female Eastern Smooth Boxfish, Anoplocapros inermis (above) Anoplocapros inermis, male eastern smooth boxfish Male are pale to blue with large yellow blotches. Above is a young male, older ones are bluer. More

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Common names

Chubby basketfish in English
Eastern smooth boxfish in English
Polled boxfish in English
Robust boxfish in English
无刺粒突六棱箱鲀 in Mandarin Chinese
無刺粒突六棱箱魨 in Mandarin Chinese

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Order : Tetraodontiformes
Family : Aracanidae
Genus : Anoplocapros
Species : Anoplocapros inermis
Authority : Fraser-Brunner, 1935