The Aracanidae are a family of bony fishes

Actinopterygii

The Actinopterygii or ray-finned fishes constitute a class or sub-class of the bony fishes.The ray-finned fishes are so called because they possess lepidotrichia or "fin rays", their fins being webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines , as opposed to the fleshy, lobed fins that characterize...

 related to the boxfish

Boxfish

Ostraciidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes...

es. They are somewhat more primitive than the true boxfishes, but have a similar protective covering of thickened scale plates. They are found in the Indian Ocean and the west Pacific. Unlike the true boxfishes, they inhabit deep waters, of over 200 metres (656.2 ft) in depth.

Classfication

• Family Aracanidae
  • Genus †Proaracana
    Proaracana
    Proaracana dubia is an extinct, prehistoric aracanid boxfish that lived during the Lutetian of middle Eocene Monte Bolca.-See also:* Eolactoria* Prehistoric fish* List of prehistoric bony fish...
    
    Le Danois, 1969
    • †Proaracana dubia (Blainville
      Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
      Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for whom he occasionally...
      
      , 1818)
  • Genus Anoplocapros Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1855
    • Western smooth boxfish, (Anoplocapros amygdaloides) Fraser-Brunner, 1941
    • Eastern smooth boxfish, (Anoplocapros inermis) Fraser-Brunner, 1935
    • White-barred boxfish, (Anoplocapros lenticularis) (Richardson
      John Richardson (naturalist)
      Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
      
      , 1841)
    • Chubby basketfish, (Anoplocapros robustus) Fraser-Brunner, 1941
  • Genus Aracana J. E. Gray
    John Edward Gray
    John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
    
    , 1838
    • Striped cowfish, (Aracana aurita) (Shaw
      George Shaw
      George Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
      
      , 1798)
    • Ornate cowfish, (Aracana ornata) (J. E. Gray
      John Edward Gray
      John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
      
      , 1838)
  • Genus Caprichthys McCulloch
    Alan Riverstone McCulloch
    Alan Riverstone McCulloch was a prominent Australian ichthyologist.McCulloch was born in Sydney, and began his scientific career at the age of 13 as an unpaid assistant to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in the Australian Museum there; Waite encouraged McCulloch to study zoology...
    
     & Waite
    Edgar Ravenswood Waite
    Edgar Ravenswood Waite was a British/Australian ichthyologist, ornithologist and zoologist.Waite was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the second son of John Waite, a bank clerk,...
    
    , 1915
    • Rigid boxfish, (Caprichthys gymnura) McCulloch
      Alan Riverstone McCulloch
      Alan Riverstone McCulloch was a prominent Australian ichthyologist.McCulloch was born in Sydney, and began his scientific career at the age of 13 as an unpaid assistant to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in the Australian Museum there; Waite encouraged McCulloch to study zoology...
      
       & Waite
      Edgar Ravenswood Waite
      Edgar Ravenswood Waite was a British/Australian ichthyologist, ornithologist and zoologist.Waite was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the second son of John Waite, a bank clerk,...
      
      , 1915
  • Genus Capropygia Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1855
    • Black-banded pygmy boxfish, (Capropygia unistriata) (Kaup
      Johann Jakob Kaup
      Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
      
      , 1855)
  • Genus Kentrocapros Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup
    Johann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
    
    , 1855
    • Kentrocapros aculeatus (Houttuyn
      Martinus Houttuyn
      Maarten Houttuyn or Houttuijn , Latinised as Martinus Houttuyn, was a Dutch naturalist.Houttuyn was born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. He published many books on natural history. His areas of interest encompassed Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Spermatophytes...
      
      , 1782)
    • Kentrocapros eco (Phillipps, 1932)
    • Kentrocapros flavofasciatus (Kamohara, 1938)
    • Basketfish, (Kentrocapros rosapinto) (J. L. B. Smith, 1949)
  • Genus Polyplacapros Fujii and Uyeno, 1979
    • Polyplacapros tyleri Fujii and Uyeno, 1979