Lactoria diaphana (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 224

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609948

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF4E-FF6A-98EA-F9C5F87E372C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Lactoria diaphana (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
status

 

Lactoria diaphana (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) View in CoL .

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).

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