Longhorn Cowfish
The longhorn cowfish have a very unusual box shaped body with a proportionally large caudal fin that is usually folded.
Longhorn cowfish. On the lower rear section of the body two further spines face backwards as can be seen in the image below. In this horned fish we find a wide range of colors distributed in the 25 existing species. Cowfish have their head and body encased in a series of hard bony hexagonal plates fused to form a box with openings for fins and other organs.
The longhorn cowfish is a horned marine species that has a square figure similar to a cow bull or toad. The longhorn cowfish lactoria cornuta also called the horned boxfish is a species of boxfish from the family ostraciidae recognizable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head rather like those of a cow or bull. Body colour varies from greenish or olive green to pale yellow or orange with blue spots.
The longhorn cowfish is a variety of boxfish from the ostraciidi family it is recognisable by its long horns that protrude from the front of its head rather like those of a cow or bull. Longhorn cowfish inhabit weedy and sandy areas near reefs. An easily recognised cowfish with long spines protruding from the front of the head and similar spines protruding from the lower rear of the carapace.
This fish belongs to the ostraciidae family. Longhorn cowfish are usually around 10 centimetres 4 inches in length. They have sharp spines on the ridges in front of the eyes and behind the short tail.
Members of this family come in a variety of different colors and are notable due to the hexagonal patterns known as honeycombs on. Adults are reef fish often solitary and territorial and live around sand. Two large spine like horns face forward above the eye and they have a tubular shaped mouth that protrudes forward.
They are a resident of the indo pacific region and can grow up to 50 cm 20 in long.
