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boxfish Ostraciidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes. Fish in the family are known variously as boxfishes, cofferfishes, cowfishes and trunkfishes. It contains ...

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Species

Three species in this genus are recognized: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.'' * ''

Lactoria cornuta ''Lactoria'' is a genus of boxfishes. Species Three species in this genus are recognized:Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. ''Ichthyol ...

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, 1758) (longhorn cowfish) * ''

Lactoria diaphana ''Lactoria'' is a genus of boxfishes. Species Three species in this genus are recognized:Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. ''Ichthyol ...

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& J. G. Schneider, 1801) (roundbelly cowfish) * ''

Lactoria fornasini The thornback cowfish (''Lactoria fornasini''), is a poisonous species of boxfish found throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Bass Islands (French Polynesia). It can grow to a maximum length of . It is an uncommon fish th ...

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, 1846) (thornback cowfish)

References

Ostraciidae Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Marine fish genera {{Tetraodontiformes-stub