Ostracion solorense was first formally described in 1853 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker with its type locality given as Lawajong on Solor Island, Indonesia.

[4] Ostracion solorense has 9 soft rays in both the dorsal and anal fins.

[5] The overall colour of the males varies from bluish-grey to blackish with thin light blue sinuous lines on the back, a wide dark stripe with paler wavy lines on the upper flank and white spots withnblack marginms along the flanks.

[6] This species has a maximum published total length of 12 cm (4.7 in).

[5] Ostracion solorense is found in the eastern Indian Ocean at Rowley Shoals and Christmas Island and in the Pacific as far east as Palau and Fiji.