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Ostraciidae
scrawled cowfish
Acanthostracion quadricornis
Paired spines near the eyes and chest under hexagonal plates
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Tropical fish
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Largescrawled cowfish is known around Atlantic Ocean as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and records give a maximum length of 55 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Ostraciidae
- Genus
- Acanthostracion
- Maximum length
- 55 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Atlantic Ocean: in tropical and temperate waters (Ref. 3696 ). Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to southeastern Brazil. Reported from tip of South Africa.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
