Lactophrys

Lactophrys is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. The boxfishes in this genus are found in the western Atlantic Ocean and are known as trunkfishes.

==Taxonomy== Lactophrys was first proposed in 1839 as a subgenus of Tetrosomus by the British zoologist William Swainson. In 1865 Pieter Bleeker designated Ostracion trigonus as the type species of this taxon. O. trigonus has been first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1758, the type locality was mistakenly given as India when it is actually the Western Atlantic. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus within the family Ostraciidae in the suborder Ostracioidea within the order Tetraodontiformes.