Lactoria
Lactoria cornuta
Lactoria fornasini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Ostraciidae
Genus: Lactoria
D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1902

Lactoria is a genus of boxfishes.

Species

Three species in this genus are recognized:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758)longhorn cowfishIndo-Pacific
Lactoria diaphana (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801)roundbelly cowfishSoutheast Atlantic: off Swakopmund, Namibia. Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific: South Africa east through Indonesia to the Easter Island and Peru, north to southern Japan, Hawaii, and southern California, south to New Caledonia, New South Wales and Kermadec Islands
Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi, 1846)thornback cowfishtropical Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Bass Islands (French Polynesia).


References

  1. Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.
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