Cowfish

Cowfish
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see trunkfish.
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Trunkfish - any member of a family of fishes, also called boxfishes, that have short triangular bodies covered by firmly united hexagonal bony plates.

Cowfish appear to hover while swimming using a form of locomotion called Ostraciiform swimming. This type of swimming requires the movement of the dorsal fin and pectoral fins.

A Roundbelly Cowfish at 'The Pipeline'
A Rusty Jobfish speared at Marion Reef
A Sabre Squirrelfish at Harrier Reef
A Sabre Squirrelfish at Osprey Reef, Coral Sea
A Salamanderfish caught at Dentrecasteaux Point
A Samson Fish at Shelly Beach ...

And Yellow Rockfish, Blackcap Basslet, Blacksmith, Blue Faced Angelfish, Blue Tang, Boccacio, Bonefish, Boxfish, Brown Triggerfish, Bursa Triggerfish, Butterfly Fish, California Moray Eel, Catalina Goby, Clown Triggerfish, Coral Grouper, Cowfish, ...

ORDER: Tetraodontiformes (cowfishes, filefishes, leatherjackets,
puffers, triggerfishes, and trunkfishes)
FAMILY: Diodontidae (burrfishes and porcupinefishes) ...

Scientific name: Galaxias maculates (Jenyns)
Synonyms: Galaxias attenuatus
Popular Common names: inanga, whitebait.
Other common names: cowfish, milkfish, minnow.

Longhorn Cowfish ( Lactoria cornuta )
Long-nosed Butterflyfish ( Forcipiger flavissimus )
Devil Ray / Manta Ray ( Manta birostris )
Megamouth ( Megachasma pelagios )
Pajama Cardinalfish ( Sphaeramia nematoptera ) ...

tube sponges are filter-feeders, consuming plankton, detritus (dead organic matter) and bacteria that drift in the oceans currents. These sponges are consumed by a number of different coral reef organisms, such as angelfishes, filefishes, cowfishes ...

Other fish
Reproduction
Internal fertilization of large numbers of eggs (up to 2,700,000) followed by live birth
Other Names
Red snapper, Pacific red snapper, red rock cod, yellow belly, cowfish ...

See also: Shark, Shell, Coral, Whale, Ray