What's the difference between boxfish and foxfish?
Boxfish
Definition:
(n.) The trunkfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major hemolysin was identical with pahutoxin which was previously isolated from the Hawaiian boxfish O. lentiginosus, while the other hemolysin was a new choline chloride ester, named homopahutoxin.
(2) n. is described from the type host, the sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum), and other fishes of the northern Gulf of Mexico and southern Florida, including the Gulf toadfish, Opsanus beta (Goode and Bean); the spiny boxfish, Chilomycterus schoepfi (Walbaum); the slippery dick, Halichoeres bivittatus (Bloch); and the Atlantic croaker, Micropogon undulatus (Linnaeus).
(3) The mucus secreted by the Japanese boxfish O. immaculatus was extracted with n-butanol.
Foxfish
Definition:
(n.) The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.