What's the difference between cowfish and trunkfish?

Cowfish


Definition:

  • (n.) The grampus.
  • (n.) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).
  • (n.) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

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Trunkfish


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

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  • (1) The components of the mucus skin secretions from eight species of trunkfish found in the coastal waters of Australia were analyzed by combined chemical ionization-gas chromatography mass spectrometry.

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