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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 ]
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.
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 ...
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Helmet cowfish: Tetrosomus gibbosus: Caution: Tan with dark speckles and brown spots at the base of the caudal fin. 30 cm (11.8 in) Immaculate puffer: Arothron immaculatus: No: 28 cm (11.0 in) Longhorn cowfish: Lactoria cornuta: Caution: Grayish tan with very distinctive "horns" near the eyes and under the caudal fin. 46 cm (18.1 in) Scribbled ...
The thornback cowfish (Lactoria fornasini), [4] is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This species is found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Bass Islands (French Polynesia) .
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.
Opahs, also commonly known as moonfish, sunfish, cowfish (not to be confused with Molidae), kingfish, and redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the small family Lampridae (also spelled Lamprididae).