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.