Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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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
).