Longhorn cowfishes are found in the Red Sea and off East Africa eastward through Indonesia to Marquesas and northward to southern Japan including Tuamotus, southern Korea, north to the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, south to Australia and Lord Howe Island and off southern Africa in the Atlantic.

Are cowfish poisonous to humans?

Second, cowfish are unaffected. ... The good news in all of this, as long as you're not a fish, is that cowfish, and other boxfish species, don't appear to be poisonous to humans. In some parts of the Pacific they are considered a delicacy, and roasted over the fire like chestnuts.

Where can you find cowfish?

Longhorn Cowfish inhabit weedy and sandy areas near reefs. They often expose their invertebrate prey by blowing jets of water onto the sandy substrate. Video of a Longhorn Cowfish in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.