Author: Bleeker, 1863

Acanthostracion notacanthus Bleeker, 1863

Diagnosis: a median spine on back. Dorsal finrays 10; anal finrays 10.Colour: yellowish; each plate of the carapace has a dark ring, rounded or polygonal, often incomplete. Size: to about 25 cm SL.

Distribution: eastern Atlantic Ocean: the Azores, Ascension 1., St Helena, occasionally along West Africa. Very doubtful report from France (as Ostracion quadricornis Bleeker, 1863).

Habitat, distribution and abundance. Littoral. In the area: Azores- generally: eastern and central Atlantic.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Tetraodontiformes
Suborder Balistoidei
Family Ostraciontidae
Genus Acanthostracion
Species Acanthostracion notacanthus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Acanthostracion notacanthus (Bleeker, 1863)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Acanthostracion notacanthus Bleeker, 1863

Synonyms:

Ostracion notacanthus Bleeker, 1863, Soc. Holl. Sci.: 21 ('St. Helena'). Holotype: RMNH no. D-2771.
Lactophrys notacanthus: Fowler, 1920, 56: 206 (Azores).
Ostracion tricornis (nec Linnaeus): Fowler, 1936, 2: 1101, fig. 462.
Ostracion notacanthus: Cadenat & Marchal, 1963: 1255-1258, fig. 13A.
Acanthostracion notacanthus: Tyler, 1965, 117 (8): 262, fig. 1-2 (several loc.).

Common names:

none

Bleeker, P. 1863. Mémoire sur les poissons de la côte de Guinée. Natuurk. Verh. holland Maatsch. Wet. Haarlem, (2)18 :1-136, 28 pl.

Cadenat, J.; Marchal, E. 1963. Résultats des campagnes océanographiques de la Reine-Pokou aux îles Sainte-Hélène et Ascension. Poissons. Bull Inst. fr. Afr. noire, (A) 25 (4) :1235-1315, 48 fig.

Fowler, H. W. 1920. The Fishes of the United States 'Eclipse' Expedition to West Africa. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 1919 [1920], 56 :195-292, 13 fig.

Fowler, H. W.1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-15. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: vii+606 p., fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18,1936: 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Günther, A. 1866. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. 6. Catalogue of the Physostomi containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae in the collection of the British Museum. London, pp. xv+368 p.

Tyler, J. C. 1965. A synopsis of the four species of Cowfishes (Acanthostracion, Plectognathi) in the Atlantic ocean. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 117 (8): 261-287 20 fig.

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