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TETRAODOK 



The jaws divided in the middle by a suture above and below, so 

 as to present the appearance of forming four prominent teeth. The 

 lower portion of the body covered with spines, and capable of being 

 inflated; orifice of the gills small. 



PENNANT'S GLOBEFISH. 



Tefraodon steUatus, Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 174. 



Donovan; PI. 66. 

 " " Jenyns; Manual, p. 489. 



Tetrodou Pennantii, Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 457. 



This fish is seen so seldom, and for the most part within 

 such a limited district, that we may suppose its native haunts 

 to be at some considerable depth of a confined space in the 

 ocean; from which its wanderings have been caused by some 

 unusual influence, which probably may be disease. Yet an 

 exception to this latter remark may apply to an example that 

 was met with in the Solent water, where the tide retires to a 

 large distance, by which means this Globefish, which measured 

 a little more than twenty inches, was left, in the possession of 

 active strength, in a hollow of the wide-extended sands of that 

 shore. 



I owe to the kindness of the Earl of Enniskillen the inform- 

 ation of an example that measured seventeen inches, which 

 was caught at Charmouth, in Dorsetshire; and from Mr. 

 Thompson and his Editors we learn that three have been taken 

 in Ireland; two of which were in the county of Wexford, and 

 the third on the coast of Waterford. In Cornwall one was 

 taken near Polperro, and several have been obtained in Mount's 

 Bay; of two of which we give the particulars, as they in some 

 degree throw light on the actions of this fish; and especially 



