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boxfish: see trunkfish trunkfish, any member of a family of fishes, also called boxfishes, that have short triangular bodies covered by firmly united hexagonal bony plates. Only the jaw, the bases of the fins, and the tail protrude from this carapace, and the locomotion of these fishes is
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As you dive into the warm waters, you will be amazed at the colourful clown and box fish, trumpet, lionfish and stonefish that swim by.
Moving a few meters deeper, stretches of sand pecked by volcanic rock camouflaged hundreds of box fish who peered suspiciously up with green eyes.
Aquarist Lynsey Thompson said: "The sharks are a little bit dopey, and by the time they spurred themselves into action the box fish had eaten all the food.
 
 
 
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