Mucky Secrets - Part 12 - Boxfishes, Puffers & Porcupinefishes - Lembeh Strait

Boxfishes, puffers and porcupinefishes. Part 12 of my documentary, “Mucky Secrets“, about the fascinating marine creatures of the Lembeh Strait in Indonesia. Watch the full 90-minute documentary at In this video I look at fishes in the order Tetraodontiformes. First of all we encounter a very young boxfish, possibly a longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta. Along with toxic skin, the boxfish’s main defence is a very hard carapace of bony plates. The juvenile’s colorat