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The longhorn cowfish (Lactoria cornuta), also called the horned boxfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This species is recognizable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head, rather like those of a cow or bull. [ 3 ]
Gelonaetha hirta, commonly known as Hibiscus Long-horned beetle, [1] or Long horn teak borer, [2] is a species of longhorn beetle. It is distributed in Sri Lanka , India , Myanmar , Thailand , Laos , Hainan Island , Taiwan , Borneo , Philippines , Micronesia , Polynesia and West Indies .
Lactoria diaphana, the roundbelly cowfish, diaphonous cowfish, many-spined cowfish, spiny cowfish or transparent cowfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This fish is found in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific.
Tetrosomus gibbosus, commonly called camel cowfish because of the hump on its dorsal keel, is one of 22 species in the boxfish family, Ostraciidae. [2] It is a ray finned fish. Other common names include helmet cowfish , humpback turretfish and thornbacked boxfish .
The honeycomb cowfish is classified within the genus Acanthostracion, this name combines acanthus, which means "spine" or "thorn", with ostracion.Bleeker originally proposed this taxon as a subgenus of the genus Ostracion The Specific name, polygonius, means "many angled", a reference to the hexagonal patterning on the carapce of this fish.
Aracana ornata was first formally described as Ostracion ornata in 1838 by the English zoologist John Edward Gray with its type locality given as Circular Head, Tasmania.Gray classified it in the subgenus Aracana of the genus Ostracion, [3] Aracana is now recognised as a valid genus and the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Aracanidae which is in the ...
The scrawled cowfish has a thick, oblong body, which is largely enclosed in a thickened carapace with enlarged, plate-like hexagonal scales that are jointed with each other, the mouth, eyes, gills, fins, and the caudal peduncle. The bases of the dorsal and anal fins are completely encircled by the carapace.
Nectopsyche exquisita, or the exquisite long-horned caddisfly, [2] is a species of long-horned caddisfly in the family Leptoceridae. It is found in North America. It is found in North America. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]