triqueter, Ostracion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:330 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India [erroneous, should be Western Atlantic]. Syntypes: NRM 80 (1). Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:275-276 [ref. 20707]. Based on the 'Ostracion triangulus, tuberculis exiguis innumeris' of Artedi 1738a:57 [ref. 30578]; 1738b:85 [ref. 30349] which was based on the 'Piscis triangularis ex toto cornibus carens' of Willughby 1686:Appendix p. 20 [ref. 30164], based on a manuscript description by Martinus Lister, and Ray 1713:45, No. 9 [ref. 30231], and on the 'Ostracion polyodon inermis triqueter' of Linnaeus 1754:60 [ref. 31115]. Species epithet spelled triqveter by Kielsen 1835:iii [ref. 30365]. •Valid as Rhinesomus triqueter (Linnaeus 1758) -- (McAllister 1990:226 [ref. 14674], Matsuura 2003:1984 [ref. 27119], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:918 [ref. 28815], Psomadakis et al. 2012:18 [ref. 33457]). •Valid as Lactophrys triqueter (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Robins & Ray 1986:305 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:566 [ref. 25518], Cervigón 1992:378 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1996:112 [ref. 24489], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:353 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:171 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2003:127 [ref. 26784], Menezes & Figueiredo in Menezes et al. 2003:110 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:71 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:184 [ref. 27807], Page et al. 2013:190 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:88 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34961], Robertson et al. 2020:160 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:78 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:73 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:282 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:169 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Lactophrys triqueter (Linnaeus 1758). Ostraciidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Bahia (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2017): Least concern. Habitat: marine.