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TETRODONTID^. 



SYNONYMY. 



< Odontini, Bafinesque, ludice d'lttiolog. Siciliaua, p. 40, 1810. 

 <OdopRia, liafinesqiie, Analyse de la Nature, p. — , 1815. 



<Gyninodoutes, Cuvier, Regue Auiiiial, le6d., t. 2, p. 14.5, 1817; 2d(5d., t.2, p. 364, 1829. 

 <^Tetrai)dontidie, Boxaparte, Giorn. Arcad. di Scienze, v. 52 (Saggio Distrib. Metod. 

 Auimali Verteb. a Sangue Freddo, p. 39), 1832. 



< Tetraodontid;e, Bonaparte, Nuovi Aunali dellc Sci. Nat., t. 2, p. 131, 18.38; t. 4, p. 



18(3, 1840. 



< Premiere famille [des Plectognatbes], Daresie, Ann. So. Nat. (3), v. 14, ]). 117, 1850. 

 <^ Gynmodoiitidai, Adams, Manual Nat. Hist., ji. 95, 1854. 



= Tetniodouiens, Bihron, Rovue et Mag. Zool., t. — , p. 279, 1855. 



<;Gymnodontid;e, Girard, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pacific Oc, v. 10, Fishes, 



p. 339, 1858. 

 <^Phycogastroidei, Blcelccr, Euuni. Sp. Piscium Archipel. ludico, p. xiv, 1859. 

 >Spb6rosomes, Hollard, Anuales des Sci. Nat. (4), t. 8, p. 326, 1860. 

 >Tetraodoutoidei, Bleckcr, Atlas Ich. des ludes N6orland, t. 5, p. 45, 1865; Nedorl. 



Tijdschr. Dierk., v. 3, p. 17, 1866. 

 = Tetrodontid;e, Cope, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., v. 20, p. 340, 1872. 

 <^Tetrodontida', Gill, Arrangement Fam. of Fishes, p. 1, 1872. 

 = Tetrodonte8, Fitzivgei; Sitzungsbcr. K. Akad. der Wissenscb. (Wieu), B. 67, 1. Abtb., 



p. 47, 1873. 

 <Tetrodontid8e, Jordan .j- Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., pp. 853, 8.59, 1883. 



Tetrodontoidea with the froutals articulated with the supraoccipital 

 and the postfrontals confined to the sides, the ethmoid little prominent 

 to view above and short or narrow, tlie vertebrie in small number (7, 8 + 

 9 — 13), the head wide and with a heavy wide snout, and the dorsal and 

 aual tins short and pauciradiate. 



TETKODONTIN^. 



SYNONYMS AS SUBFAMILY-NAMES. 



<[Tetraodontiui, Bonaparte, Nuovi Aunali delle Sci. Nat., t. 2, p. 131, 1838; t. 4, p. 186, 



1840. 

 <^Tetraodiiiai, Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Fishes, etc., v. 2, pp. 194, 328, 1839. 

 <^Tetrodontiformes, Bloeker, Enum. Sp. Piscium Archipel. Indico, p. xiv, 1859. 

 <Tetrodoniens, Hollard, Anuales des Sci. Nat. (4), t. 8, p. 327, 1860. 

 <^Tetraodontiformes, phalanx A. Tetraodontini, Bleelcr, Atlas Ichthyol. Indes Orient. 



Nderland., v. 5, p. 49, 1865 ; Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., v. 3, p. 18, 1866. 

 <Tetrodontina, Giinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., v. 8, pp. 269, 270, 1870. 

 <Tetrodontin8B, Gill, Johnson's New Uuiv. Cycl., v. 4, p. 792, 1877. 

 <^Tetrodoutin;e, Jordan and Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., p. 859, 1883. 



Tetrodontidie with the froutals expanded sideways and forming the 

 lateral roofs of the orbits, the postfroutals limited to the posterior por- 

 tions. 



As the name Tetrodon has been variously employed, the essentials of 

 its early history may be in place here. 



Linna'us, in the tenth edition of the "Systema Naturai", in which the 

 binomial system was first universally applied, accepted the genus Teiro- 



