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Buffalo Trunkfish

Lactophrys trigonus

Classification

Lactophrys trigonus, the buffalo trunkfish or trunkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. The buffalo trunkfish is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Lactophrys trigonus was first formally described as Ostracion trigonus in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae with its type locality given as the Western Atlantic.

Distribution

Jeffrey T. Williams · CC0
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United States of America · 258Mexico · 71Brazil · 33France · 28United Kingdom · 27Cuba · 18Netherlands · 18Canada · 2