Polyplacapros
Sign in to savePolyplacapros is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Aracanidae, the temperate boxfishes or deep water boxfishes. The only species in the genus is Polyplacapros tyleri, '''Tyler's boxfish''', which is found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Polyplacapros is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Aracanidae, the temperate boxfishes or deep water boxfishes. The only species in the genus is Polyplacapros tyleri, '''Tyler's boxfish', which is found in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Polyplacapros was first proposed as a genus in 1979 by the Japanese ichthyologists Eiichi Fujii and Teruya Uyeno when they described Polyplacapros tyleri. The type locality pf P. tyleri'' was given as a seamount off eastern Australia at 33°04.0'S, 156°13.2'E, from a depth of . The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this taxon in the family Aracanidae, which is in the suborder Ostracioidea within the order Tetraodontiformes.