trigonus, Ostracion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:330 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Western Atlantic. No types known. Original locality given as India, actual is w. Atlantic. •Valid as Lactophrys trigonus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:304 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:566 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:226 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:182 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:378 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1996:111 [ref. 24489], Murdy et al. 1997:261 [ref. 23144], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:353 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:171 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2003:127 [ref. 26784], Matsuura 2003:1985 [ref. 27119], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:109 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:70 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:184 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:916 [ref. 28815], García-Hernández et al. 2009:94 [ref. 37265], Psomadakis et al. 2012:18 [ref. 33457], Page et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:88 [ref. 33341], Ribeiro et al. 2019:9 [ref. 36717], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:78 [ref. 38844], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:689 [ref. 38945], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:73 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:282 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Lactophrys trigonus (Linnaeus 1758). Ostraciidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to Sao Pãulo (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.