''Lactoria'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
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 ...
es.
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''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758) (longhorn cowfish)
* ''
Lactoria diaphana''
( Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (roundbelly cowfish)
* ''
Lactoria fornasini''
( Bianconi, 1846) (thornback cowfish)
References
Ostraciidae
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler
Marine fish genera
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