Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lactoria

WoRMS 205260ITIS 173271key worms:205260

2026-08-05: itis_id 173271 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emily Troyer · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lactoria diaphana

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Lactoria — Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Lactoria is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the Indo-Pacific, with one species extending into the southeastern Atlantic.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2003, across 2 taxa under it.R

10
observations: 10
records: 1972–2003
years: 1
datasets: 2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

sp Lactoria diaphana Spiny boxfish8
sp Lactoria fornasini Thornback cowfish2

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:205260")

Lactoria

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.