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 . DIODONTlDiE. 



PARADIODON HYSTRIX, {Linne) Bleeker. 

 Sea Hedgehog 5 Sea Porcupine. 



Guamajacu Guara, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brazil. 1648, 158". 



Diodon Eystrix, Linn£, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 335; ed. 12, 1, 1766, 413 ^not Gmeliu) 



Linn6, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 449, according to Bakneville, Eevue zoologique 



1846, 141).— PoEY, Mem. ii, 1861, 361.— GijNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 



1870, 306.— Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 480. 

 Paradiodon Jiystrix, Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. v, 1865, tab. ccvii, f. 2. — Poey, Eep. Fis. 



Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 430. 

 Erizo, Parra, Desc. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 60, lam. xxix, f. 1-2. 

 Diodon atinga, Bloch, Ichth. iv, 1787, 75, taf. cxxv, (not Linn6). — Gmelin, Linn6, 



Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 1449.— Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth, 1801, 511.— Lac£- 



pI;de, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, 1801, 1-3.— Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1804, 434.— MtJu.. 



& Trosch. in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 1848, 677. — Kaup, Wiegmann's 



Arch. Naturg. xxi, 1855, 227. — Jouan, Anim. Nouv. Caledouie, Mem. Soc. 



Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 1861-'63, 18.— Bleeker, Enum. Pise. Arch. Ind. 



1859, 203. 

 Diodon attinga, Ruppell. Verzeichn. Senckeub. Mus. Fisch. 18 2, 35. 

 Diodon Plumieri, 'Lxci.ptvE, op. cit. ii, 1, 1801, 1-10, pi. iii, f. 3. 

 Diodon Brachiatus, Schneider, op. cit. 213 (founded on Parra's figure No. 1, cited 



above.) 

 Diodon punctatus, Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. iv, 1818, 132, and Rfegne Animal, 



1817, p.—. — Bleeker, Verhaudl. Bat. Gen. xxiv, Blootk. Vissch. 1852, 19. 



This species, commou in the West Indies, recorded also from the 

 Pacific auft the Indian Archipehigo, is occasionally found here, and, on 

 account of its bristly skin, is greatly prized by curiosity -hunters. It is 

 never eaten. I saw four specimens, each about eighteen inches long. 



CHILOMYCTERUS RETICULATUS, {Linn.) Bihron. 



Orhis muricaiua et reticulatus, Willughby, Ichthyographia, 1685, 155, tab. J, No. vii. — 



Seba, Locup. Rer. Nat. Thes. Desc. iii, 1758, 58, tab. xxiii, f. 3. 

 Ostracion subrotundus, aeuleis undique hrevibus triquetris raris, Artedi, Gen. Pise. 1738, 



52, No. 16. 

 Diodon reticulatus, Linn6, Syst. Nat. 1, 1758, 334. — Gmelin, Linn6, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 



1449. 

 CMlomyeterus reticulatus, Bibron apud Barneville, Revue Zoologique, 1846, 141. — 



Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. v, 1865, 54.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. viii, 1870, 



313. 

 Diodon atringa /?, Linn^e:, op. cit. ed. 12, 1, 1766, 413. 

 f Diodon atinga, Poey, Mem. ii, 1861, 361; Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 429.— Cope, 



Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 480. 



