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

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).