Longhorn cowfish
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Longhorn cowfish blow water into seabed sand to uncover buried food.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Longhorn cowfish
- Scientific name
- Lactoria cornuta
- Japanese name
- コンゴウフグ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Ostraciidae
- Genus
- Lactoria
Where the name “Longhorn cowfish” comes from
Its English name refers to the projections on its head resembling cattle horns.
Georgia AquariumA fish found in Japanese seas, around the Korean Peninsula, China and Taiwan, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Longhorn cowfish lives
They live on sandy or rubble-covered bottoms in coral reef lagoons. They usually spawn around sunset. After releasing eggs and sperm into the water, the parents quickly return to the reef bottom.
Georgia AquariumBasic data
- Range
- Kii Peninsula to Tanegashima, Niigata to Nagasaki, Ryukyu Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Longhorn cowfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コンゴウフグ
- 简体中文
- 角箱鲀
- 繁體中文
- 角箱魨
- 한국어
- 뿔복
- Español
- Pez cofre cornudo
- Français
- Poisson-vache à longues cornes
- Deutsch
- Kuhfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-vaca-comum
- Italiano
- Pesce scatola cornuto
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan sapi tanduk panjang
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá Nóc sứng đuôi dài
- Русский
- Обыкновенный рогатый кузовок
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — コンゴウフグChecked: 2026-11-04
- National Aquarium — Longhorn CowfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- Georgia Aquarium — Longhorn CowfishChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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