Lactoria is a genus of boxfishes.
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| Lactoria cornuta | |
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| Lactoria fornasini | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Ostraciidae |
| Genus: | Lactoria D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1902 |
Species edit
Three species in this genus are recognized:[1]
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Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758) | longhorn cowfish | Indo-Pacific |
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Lactoria diaphana (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) | roundbelly cowfish | Southeast 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 |
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Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi, 1846) | thornback cowfish | tropical Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Bass Islands (French Polynesia). |
References edit
- ^ 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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