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Ostracion triqueter
Cuckold Cuck"old (k?k"?ld), n. [OE. kukeweld, cokewold, cokold, fr. OF. coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see Herald); cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.] 1. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. --Shak. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish.

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- Atlantic Ocean. The smooth trunkfish was first formally described as Ostracion triqueter in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae with...
- order Tetraodontiformes. Ostraciidae takes its name from its type genus, Ostracion, a name which means "little box" and is an allusion to the shape of the...
- snipefish Ostracion (Boxfishes & Cowfishes) Ostracion triqueter – Lactophrys triqueter Ostracion trigonus – Lactophrys trigonus Ostracion bicaudalis...
- proposed as a monospecific genus in 1839 by William John Swainson with Ostracion turritus as its type species by monotypy. O. turritus was first formally...
- Pacific Oceans. Tetrosomus concatenatus was first formally described as Ostracion concatenatus in 1785 by the German physician and naturalist Marcus Elieser...
- British zoologist William John Swainson. In 1865 Pieter Bl****er designated Ostracion trigonus as the type species of this taxon. O. trigonus has been first...