You’ll have no problem identifying a Boxfish, as they have a distinctively square (you guessed it, boxlike) body shape. Their unique shape is due to their skeletal frame, which is a series of connected, hexagonalshaped bony plates, with gaps for the eyes, mouth, gills, anus, fins and tail fin base, all covered by thin skin. Their box-like form has even inspired a luxury car design — in 2006, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its Bionic concept car, shaped after the streamlined Yellow Boxfish. According to Mercedes-Benz, “The Boxfish’s face is small in proportion to its overall length, and its streamlined surfaces encourage air to move over it, without creating the turbulence that robs aerodynamic efficiency.”
Their shape and heavy weight-to-size ratio, combined with the fact they only use their dorsal and anal fins for…
