232 REVIEW OF TETRAODONTID^. 



Lagocephalus laevigatus.* 



Ostracion cathetoplateo ohlongua Artedi, genera 58, species No. 13, 1738 (after 

 Orbislagocejjhalas Grew, &c.). 



Tetrodon Iwingatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 411, 1766 (on a specimen col- 

 lected at Charleston by Dr. Garden); Schopf, Schrift. Naturf. Freunde, 

 1788, 189 (Ehode Island) ; Gmeliu, Syst. Nat., 1447, 1788 (copied); Walbauui, 

 Artedi Pisciuni, 595, 1792 (copied) ; Blocb »fe Sckueider, Syst. IchthyoL, 180], 

 506 (copied); Turton, Syst. Nat., 1806, 891 (copied); Guntber, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit, Mns., viii, 1870, :274 (Babia; Gnlf of Mexico); Gill, Cat. Fish. F. 

 Coast N. Am., 1873, 15 (name only) ; Poey, Ennm. Pisciuni Cuben., 171, 

 1875 (Cuba); De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 329, 1842 (New York); Ston-r, 

 Hist. Fish. Mass., 224, 1857 (Nantucket) ; Baird, U. S. Fish. Com., 1871-72, 

 823 (Wood's Holl); Poey, Syu. Piscium Cubensis, 431, 1868 (Cuba). 



Apsiceplialus {Promeqocephalus) Iwvigatus Hollard, Etudes sur les Gymnodoutes, 

 1857 (figures of skulls). 



Gastrojyhysus lavigatus Bleeker, "Natuurh. Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Wet. Haarlem, 

 1863, xviii, 22." 



Lagoceplralus Icevigaiua Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 367 (Beau- 

 fort, N. C); Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 109, (St. John's Eiver, 

 Florida); Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 122 (Pensacola, Fla.); 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 305 (Galveston); Jordan & 

 Gilbert, 1. c, 1882, 619 (Charleston) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. 

 A., 1883, 860;Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 141, 1885. 



Tetrodon lagocephalus Bloch, Ausl. Fische, 1, 126, taf. 140; Bloch & Schneider, 

 Syst. Ichth., 1801, 503 (not of Linnteus). 



Tamhoril Parra, Dif. Piezas de Hist. Nat., 1787, 37, lam. 10 (Havana). 



Le Tetrodon Mal-Aym^hac6pe(ie, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 497, 1798 (copied). 



Tetrodon curvns Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc, i, 472, 1815 (New York; 

 young); De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes; 1842, 328 (copied). 



Tetrodon mathematicus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc, i, 474, 1815 (New York). 



Tetrodon pachycephalus Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sci. Inst. Bonon., iv, 1840, 

 73, pi. 11, f. 2 (Brazil). 



Holacanthus melanothos Gronow, Systema, ed. Gray, 1854, 24 ; (based on T. Icpvi- 

 gatus of Linnaeus). 



Tetrodon lineolatns Poey, Synops. Piscium Cuben., 432, 1868 (Cuba); Poey, 

 Enum. Piscium Cuben., 172, 1875 (Cuba; Young). 



Habitat. — Tropical and temi3erate shores of Atlantic coast of America ; 

 Cape Cod to Brazil. 



The synonymy of this common species offers no difficulty. First de- 

 scribed under the specific name of Iwvigatus, it has been known by the 

 same name by nearly all authors subsequent to Linnaeus. 



IL— SPHJaEOIDES. 



Tetraodon species Liuuteus, Systema Naturae, ed. x, 1758, 332 (several species : 



testudineus mentioned first). 

 Les Sphceroides Lac6pfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 1, 1798 (French name only). 

 Sph^roidks Lac<?pfede, Pillot edition, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 279, 1831 {tul)erculatus = 



spengleri). 

 CiRRHisOMUS Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class'n Fishes, ii, 1839, 194, 328 (spengleri). 



* Macleay, Cat. Austr. Fish., ii, 273, 1881, records this species from Port Jackson, 

 Australia. This breadth of range needs verification. 



