Pterygotrigla acanthomoplate (Fowler, 1938) Bovitrigla is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins, one of two genera belonging to the subfamily Pterygotriglinae.

Bovitrigla was first described as a genus in 1938 by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler when he described its only species, Bovitrigla acanthomoplate,[3] the holotype of which was collected off Point Tagolo Light, near northern Mindanao in the Philippines at 8°47'N, 123°31'15"E by United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer USFS Albatross II.

[4] The genus is classified within the subfamily Pterygotriglinae, alongside the rather more speciose Pterygotrigla.

The specific name acanthomoplate compounds acanthus, meaning "thorn" or "spine" with omos, which means "shoulder" and plate, "blade", alluding to the "long, slender suprascapular spine, flaring out and back".

[7] Bovitrigla is found in the Western Pacific Ocean and specimens have been collected near the Philippines, in the South China Sea and from southern Japan.