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This species has a distribution from Florida and Gulf of Mexico 

 through the West Indies to Brazil and most certainly will be taken 

 off Venezuela, although so far I fail to find any record of its capture 

 from that country. 



SPHOEROIDES TESTUDINEUS (Linnaeus) 



Yeqtje o Sapo bruto 



Tetraodon testudineus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 332, 1758. 

 Sphoeroides testudineus Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 387, fig. 195, 

 1942 (coast of Venezuela). 



U.S.N. M. No. 121700, 36 specimens, 22 to 118 mm. in standard length, Lago de 

 Maracaibo at Yacht Club, Maracaibo, May 16, 1942. 



U.S.N. M. No. 121701, 22 specimens, 20 to 61 mm., Lago de Maracaibo opposite 

 Salina Rica, 5 km. north of Maracaibo, February 20, 1942. 



U.S.N. M. No. 121699, 94 specimens, 18 to 94 mm., Lago de Maracaibo at Yacht 

 Club, Maracaibo, February 27 and March 5, 1942. 



U.S.N. M. No. 121698, 17 specimens, 21 to 101 mm., mouth of Cafio de Sagua, 

 25 km, north of Sinamaica, March 21, 1942. 



U.S.N. M. No. 121697, 78 specimens, 17 to 122 mm., Lago de Maracaibo, 

 7 km. south of Maracaibo, March 6, 1942. 



Two specimens, 60 and 93 mm., a baja seca, east side of Puerto Cabello, F. F. 

 Bond, January 26, 1938. 



SPHOEROIDES EULEPIDOTUS (Met2elaar) 



Tetrodon (Spheroides) eulepidotus Metzelaar, Rapport Onderz. Toest. Viss. Ind. 

 Zeeprod. Kol. Curagao, vol. 2, p. 170, fig. 54, 1919 (Lesser Antilles). 



Specimens before me from the collection in the United States 

 National Museum indicate that this species ranges from Texas, Pana- 

 ma, and West Indies to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 



U.S.N. M. No. 122001, 4 specimens, 22 to 5 mm., in standard length. Cape San 

 Romdn, U. S. S. Niagara, April 2, 1925. 



U.S.N. M. No. 122002, 1 specimen, 13 mm., south coast of Gulf of Venezuela, 

 U. S. S. Niagara, November 15, 1925. 



U.S.N. M. No. 121702, 1 specimen, 29.5 mm., from a brackish cafio at Los 

 Monitos, Rfo Lim6n system, Leonard P. Schultz, March 11, 1942. 



Genus CANTHIGASTER Swainson 



Canthigaster Swainson, The natural history and classification of fishes, vol, 2, 

 p. 194, 1839, (Genotype, Tetrodon rostratus Bloch.) 



CANTmCASTER ROSTRATUS (Bloch) 



Tetrodon rostratus Bloch, Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 5, 



p. 4, pi. 146, fig. 2, 1787 ("Indes orientales"). 

 Tetrodon {Canthigaster) rostratus Metzelaar, Rappt. Onderz. Toest. Viss, Ind, 



Zeeprod. Kol, Curagao, vol. 2, p, 171, 1919 (Venezuela), 



Genus COLOMESUS Gill 



Colomesus Gill, Proc, U, S. Nat. Mus., vol, 7, p, 422, 1884. (Genotype, Tetrodon 

 paittacus Bloch and Schneider,) 



