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Lactoria diaphana
Description
Lactoria diaphana (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
Roundbelly Cowfish, Spiny Boxfish, or Spiny Cowfish. To 34 cm (13.4 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Hayashi in Nakabo 2002); Piedras Blancas, central California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 20–171 m (66–561 ft) (min.: Randall 2007; max.: Easton et al. 2017). Reports of this species from the Islas Galápagos are in error (McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ostraciidae
- Genus
- Lactoria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bloch & Schneider
- Species
- diaphana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lactoria diaphana (Bloch, 1801) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Randall, J. (2007) Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
- Easton, E. E., Sellanes, J., Gaymer, C. F., Morales, N., Gorny, M. & Berkenpas, E. (2017) Diversity of deep-sea fishes of the Easter Island Ecoregion. Deep-Sea Research II, 137, 78 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr 2.2016.12.006
- McCosker, J. E. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2010) The fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago: an update. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 61, Supplement II, No. 11, 167 - 195.