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Teuthis bahianus, Brown Tang 408 



Balisles carolinensis, Trigger-fish 412 



Osbeckia Icevis, File-fish 414 



A manses scopas, Needle-bearing File-fish 414 



Stephanolepis hispidus, Common File-fish 415 



Lactophrys tricornis Horned Trunkfish, Cowfish, or Cuckold 416 



Ostracion cornutum, Horned Trunkfish 416 



Lactophrys bicaudalis, Spotted Trunkfish 416 



Lactophrys bicaudalis, Spotted Trunkfish (face view) 417 



Lactophrys triqueter, Spineless Trunkfish 417 



Lactophrys trigonus, Hornless Trunkfish 418 



Skeleton of the Cowfish, Lactophrys tricornis 418 



Lagocephalus Icevigatus, Silvery Puffer 419 



Spheroides spengleri, Puffer, Inflated 420 



Spheroides maculatus, Puffer 420 



Telraodon meleagris 421 



Tetraodon setosus, Bristly Globefish 422 



Diodon hystrix, Porcupine-fish 422 



Chilomyctcrus scha*pfi, Rabbit-fish 423 



Mola mola, Headfish (adult) 424 



Ranzania makua, King of the Mackerel, from Honolulu 425 



Sebastes marinus, Rosefish 427 



Skull of Scorpcenichthys marmoratus 427 



Sebaslolobus altivelis 428 



Sebastodes mystinus,. Priest -fish 430 



Sebastichthys serriceps 431 



Sebastichthys nigrocinctus, Banded Rockfish 432 



Scorp&na grandicornis, Lion-fish 433 



Scorpana mystes, Sea-scorpion 434 



Plerois volitans, Lion-fish or Sausolele 435 



Emmydrichthys -vulcanus, Black Nohu or Poison-fish 436 



Snyderina yamanokami 437 



Trachicephales uranoscopus 438 



Anoplopoma fimbria, Skilfish 438 



Pleurogrammus monopterygius, Atka-fish 439 



Hexagrammos docagrammus, Greenling 440 



Ophiodon elongatus, Cultus Cod 440 



Jordania zonope 442 



Astrolytes notospilotus 442 



Hemilepidotus jordani, Irish Lord 443 



Triglops pingeli 443 



Enophrys bison, Buffalo Sculpin 443 



Ceratocottus diceraus 444 



Elanura jorficata 444 



Cottus punctulalus, Yellowstone Miller's Thumb 444 



