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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 ]
Long-spine porcupinefish: Diodon holocanthus: Longspine squirrelfish: Holocentrus rufus: Lookdown: Selene vomer: Lowland cichlid: Herichthys carpintis: Luminous hake: Steindachneria argentea: Lyre goby Evorthodus lyricus: Mackerel scad: Decapterus macarellus: Mahi-mahi: Coryphaena hippurus: Also known as Dolphinfish or Dorado Mahogany snapper ...
Horns are projections from the top of the head. True horns are found mainly among: Ruminant artiodactyls. Antilocapridae (); Bovidae (cattle, goats, antelopes etc.).; Giraffidae: Giraffids have a pair of skin covered bony bumps on their heads, called ossicones.
The longhorn cowfish is the largest species in the genus with a maximum published total length of 46 cm (18 in) while the smallest is the thornback cowfish maximum published total length of 23 cm (9.1 in). [5]
Acanthostracion guineense, the West African cowfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. This species is found off the coast of Western Africa in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
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 .
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.
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.