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How do boxfishes uncover buried invertebrates in sand?
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tetraodontiform
Scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus)
Boxfishes uncover buried invertebrates by blowing a jet of water from their mouths onto the sandy bottom, which displaces the sand and exposes their prey.1