The Species Black List
Acanthostracion notacanthus
island cowfish
The island cowfish (Acanthostracion notacanthus) is a type of boxfish found very disjunctly across the Tropical eastern Atlantic in the shallow waters around the Azores, Saint Helena, Ascension, and São Tomé, as well as the coast of Ghana and Angola.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 1, no restriction stated
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Realm
- Oceanic
- Locality
- The Tropical Atlantic Region
- As IUCN records it
- Acanthostracion notacanthus (Bleeker, 1863)