Species that contain: Lactoria and cornuta [ 4 ] records

chwakaensis, Ostracion von Bonde [C.] 1934:457, Pl. 23 (fig. 9) [Annals of the Natal Museum v. 7 (pt 3); ref. 16466] Chwaka, Zanzibar, Tanzania, western Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Heemstra 2022:448 [ref. 40260]). Current status: Synonym of Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758). Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.

cornutus, Ostracion Linnaeus [C.] 1758:331 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India. ZMUC Linn. coll. GA-58. Syntypes: NRM 8784 (1), ZMUC GA-58. Type catalog: Fernholm & Wheeler 1983:276 [ref. 20707]. •Valid as Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:362 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:294 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:281 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:362 [ref. 6441], Smith 1986:891 [ref. 5712], Allen & Swainston 1988:154 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:467 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:413 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:168 [ref. 25479], Krishnan & Mishra 1994:302 [ref. 24014], Goren & Dor 1994:74 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:398 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:619 [ref. 27969], Cheng & Zhou 1997:475 [ref. 26385], Lindberg et al. 1997:107 [ref. 23547], Larson & Williams 1997:375 [ref. 23967], Allen 1997:244 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:184 [ref. 26476] as cornutus, Kuiter 1997:406 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:467 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:29 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:287 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:596 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:754 [ref. 25471], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1414 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:464 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:280 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:22 [ref. 25806], Matsuura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:322 [ref. 27511], Shimizu 2001:46 [ref. 25799], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3950 [ref. 26317], Nakabo 2002:1414 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:452, 695 [ref. 26218] as cornutus, Allen & Adrim 2003:65 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:650 [ref. 27495], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:225 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:32 [ref. 27624], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:49 [ref. 27712], Adrim et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27715], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:448 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:639 [ref. 28239], Randall et al. 2005:131 [ref. 28745], Allen et al. 2006:1905 [ref. 29090], Fricke et al. 2009:119 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:332 [ref. 31171], Motomura et al. 2010:236 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1081 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:235 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:230 [ref. 34464], Matsuura 2014:17 [ref. 33576], Tyler et al. 2014:311 [ref. 34069], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:8 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:336 [ref. 34104], Motomura et al. 2017:235 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:382 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:180 [ref. 36273], Arndt & Fricke 2019:25 [ref. 36883], Fricke et al. 2019:329 [ref. 36673], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:201 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:614 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:129 [ref. 37637], Heemstra 2022:448 [ref. 40260]). Current status: Valid as Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758). Ostraciidae. Distribution: Southern Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), north to southern Korea, central Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Lord Howe Island (Australia). Habitat: marine.

horridus, Ostracion Desjardins [J.] 1836:64 [Rapport Annuel sur les travaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice No. 7; ref. 17400] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. No types known. For comments on authorship see Monod 1976:21 [ref. 30339]. •Synonym of Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Fricke 1999:596 [ref. 24106]). Current status: Synonym of Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758). Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.

valentini, Ostracion Bleeker [P.] 1848:639 [Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia (Singapore) v. 2 (no. 9); ref. 315] Bima, Sumbawa Island, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. No types known. Type catalog: Le Danois 1961:281 [ref. 21439]. Based on "Ikan Peti" of Valentyn 1726:358, Pl. opposite p. 358 (no. 36) [ref. 30358]. •Synonym of Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758). Current status: Synonym of Lactoria cornuta (Linnaeus 1758). Ostraciidae. Habitat: marine.