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duce very painful wounds. Their flesh is toxic, but it has not been 

 proved that poison-glands exist at the base of the spines. 



On the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, China, and 

 Japan these fishes are much feared. The principal species are 



Fig. 115. — Tctroclon stellatns (Indian and Pacific Oceans). (After Savtschenko.) 



Fig. 116. — Tetrodon ruhripes (Japan). (After Savtschenko.) 



Tetrodon stellatns (Indian and Pacific Oceans; fig. 115) and 

 T. ruhrijjes (Japan; fig. 116). 



Closely allied to Dioclon, and feared like the foregoing on account 



