Lactoria

Lactoria
Lactoria cornuta
Lactoria fornasini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Tetraodontiformes
Family:
Ostraciidae
Genus:
Lactoria

Lactoria is a genus of boxfishes.

Species

Three species in this genus are recognized:[1]

  • Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758) (longhorn cowfish)
  • Lactoria diaphana (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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