TA BLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 ALL COLORS AND SHAPEs 4 CHAPTER 2 ROUGH WATER STRONG SWIMMER 10 CHAPTER 3 CLEVER HUNTERS 16 CHAPTER 4 MATING MYSTERIES 20 CHAPTER 5 POISON FOR PREDATORS 24 THINK ABOUT IT 30 LEARN MORE GLOSSARY r rrrrrrrrr 32 INDEX 32
CHAPTER 1 ALL COLORS AND SHAPES ith just one look it s easy to see where boxfishes get their name Each fish in this family has a hard outer covering with boxy edges With their strange bodies it might surprise you to learn that boxfishes are good swimmers Scientists have named the boxfish family Ostraciidae This group includes boxfishes trunkfishes and cowfishes There are about 25 different species They come in a variety of shapes colors and sizes When looking at a boxfish head on its body resembles a trapezoid 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
A trunkfish is shaped more like a triangle The cowfish is rectangular They can be blue white orange yellow and other colors They have many different patterns of dots and lines The spotted boxfish is dark colored with spots that are white or yellow EXPLORING OUR
