Lactoria

Lactoria is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ostraciidae, the boxfishes. The fishes in this genus are found in the Indo-Pacific, with one species extending into the southeastern Atlantic.

==Taxonomy== Lactoria was first proposed as a subgenus of Ostracion in 1902 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Henry Weed Fowler with Ostracion cornutus designated as its type species. O. conrunutus was described in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1978 with its type locality given as "India". The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus within the family Ostraciidae in the suborder Ostracioidea within the order Tetraodontiformes.