Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 



1733 



Tetrodonspengleri, Bloch, Ichtbyologia, i, 135, pi. 144, 1782, East Indies; Gunther, Cat., 



VIII 284,1870; PoEY.Enumeratio, 173, 1875; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 681, 1883. 

 ieTetrodonpZwnier, LACfePEDB, Hist. Nat. Pois8., I, 504, 1797, Martinique; on a drawing 



byPLUMIEE. . 



Le SpUroide tubermde, Laci^PEDE, Hist. Kat. Poiss., II, 1, 1798, Martinique ; on a front-view 



drawing by Plumier. 

 Tetrodonplumieri, Bi.ocn & Schneider, Syst . Ichth., 508,1801, Martinique; after Lace- 



PfeDE. 



Sphceroides tuberculatus, Pillot Edition of Lacepede, vi, 279, 1831, Martinique. 



Tetrodon turgidus, Poey, Synopsis, 432, 1868, Cuba ; not of Mitchill. 



Tetrodon nephelus, Goode & Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 412, Indian River and Pensa- 

 cola, Florida (Types, No. 31427 and 31428 from Indian Kiver (Coll. K. Edward Earll) 

 and 26570 (Coll. Silas Stearns)) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 966, 1883. 



Tetrodon turgidm nephelus, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S.Nat. Mus. 1882, 306. 



Spheroides ipengleri, Jordan & Edwards, I. c, 237. 



2148, SPHEROIDES MACULATES (Bloch & Schneider). 

 (Puffer; Swell Toad; Blower.) 

 Head 2|; depth 3; eye small, 9 in head; iuterorbital width 31; snout If. 

 D. 7; A. 6; C. 7. Body ahout as wide as deep when not inflated; inter- 

 orbital space somewhat concave; profile not very steep, depressed in front 

 of eyes. Sides of head and body always prickly, as is the back from upper 

 lip to base of dorsal; belly prickly from lower lip to vent; prickles all 

 similar, small, mostly 3-rooted, stiif and close set, rather largest posteriorly 

 on back and belly, never obsolete; sides without cirri. Caudal slightly 

 rounded. Color dark olivaceous above, somewhat marbled and dotted 

 with black ; black blotches on lower part of sides in the form of short 

 cross bars, somewhat oblique, the first oue behind pectoral most conspic- 

 uous; caudal fin plain or nearly so, the tip darker. Close to Spheroides 

 spengleri, the spines smaller, closer together and never wanting; no cirri. 

 Length 6 to 10 inches. Atlantic coast of the United States, from Cape 

 Aun^to Florida; very common northward, replacing the closely allied S. 

 speiKjleri. The only species of the genus common outside the Tropics. 

 (maculaius, spotted.) 



Toadfish, SCHOPF, Beobacht. Gesellsch. Naturf. Freunde, viii, 189, 1788, Long Island. 

 Tetrodon hispidus, var. maculatus, Uloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 504, 1801, Long 



Island; after ScHOPF. 

 Tetrodon turgidus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc, 1, 1815, 473, pi. 5, f. 5, New York ; 



Gunther, Cat., viii, 285; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 861, 1883. 

 Spheroides maculatus, Jordan & Edwards, I. c, 238. 



2149. SPHEROIDES MARJIORATUS (Ranzani). 

 (Spiny-back Blow-fish.) 

 Head 2f ; depth 4; eye 4^ in head; snout long, 1| in head. D. 7; A. G; P. 

 14. Outline of head concave in front of eye ; eye full and high, its distance 

 above a line drawn from corner of mouth to upper base of pectoral equal 

 to its longitudinal diameter. Iuterorbital space very narrow, grooved, its 

 width equal to that of pupil. Nostrils at end of a tube, situated about 

 equally distant from end of snout and posterior edge of eye. Gill opening 



