Lactoria

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Lactoria
Lactoria cornuta (Longhorn cowfish) Timor.jpg
Lactoria cornuta
Lactoria fornasini 2.jpg
Lactoria fornasini
Scientific classification e
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]

  • Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758) (longhorn cowfish)
  • (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (roundbelly cowfish)
  • Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi, 1846) (thornback cowfish)

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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