Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Lactophrys trigonus (Linnaeus, 1758) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Ostracion expansum Cope, 1871 (synonym)

Ostracion trigonus Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)

Ostracion undulatus Poey, 1868 (synonym)

Common names:

棱箱魨 Mandarin Chinese

棱箱鲀 Mandarin Chinese

Baiacú Portuguese

Baiacu-caixão Portuguese

Baiacu-chifrudo Portuguese

Baiacu-cofre Portuguese

Baiacu-sem-chifre Portuguese

Baiacu-sem-espinhos Portuguese

Botella Spanish

Buffalo trunkfish English

Chapin Papiamento, Spanish

Chapín búfalo Spanish

Chapín De Lunares Spanish

Chapín de lunares blancos Spanish

Chapin jorobado Spanish

Chapin tresfilos Spanish

Coffre à cornes French

Cofre Portuguese, Spanish

Galina French, Spanish

Kostera trygonek Polish

Ostracião Portuguese

Peixe-cofre Portuguese

Peixe-vaca Portuguese

Pez gallina Spanish

Taoca Portuguese

Torito Spanish

Trunkfish English

Vaca-sem-chifre Portuguese

Vestatlantisk kuffertfisk Danish

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Tetraodontiformes

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Family Ostraciidae

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Genus Lactophrys

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Distribution:

Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951), Massachusetts (USA) to Brazil, including Bermuda, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Mediterranean Sea (Ref. 50345).; Virgin Islands (UK); Venezuela; USA (contiguous states); US Virgin Islands; Turks and Caicos Is.; Trinidad and Tobago; Suriname; Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf; South Brazil Shelf; Saint Vincent & the Grenadines; Saint Lucia; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Puerto Rico; Panama; Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf; North Brazil Shelf; Nicaragua; Montserrat; Mexico; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Jamaica; Honduras; Haiti; Guyana; Gulf of Mexico; Guatemala; Guadeloupe; Grenada; French Guiana; East Brazil Shelf; Dominican Republic; Dominica; Discovery Bay; Curaçao Island; Cuba; Costa Rica; Colombia; Cayman Islands; Caribbean Sea; Canada; Brazil; Bermuda; Belize; Barbados; Bahamas; Atlantic, Western Central; Atlantic, Southwest; Atlantic, Northwest; Atlantic Ocean; Aruba; Antigua and Barbuda; Anguilla

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Matsuura K., Data last modified by FishBase 01-Sep-1994

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:4021c865-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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