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4032. Chapinus bicaudalis (Linnaeus). Chapin; Spotted trunk fish; Pesce toro; 



Bullfish. 

 West Indies, from Cuba to Ascension Island; Tortugas. 

 Ostracion bicaudalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 330, "India"; 



after Artedi. 



Genus 1444. lACTOPHRYS Swainson. Three-angled trunkfishes. 



Lactophrys Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fishes, II, 1839, 194, 324 

 {Ostracion trigonus Linnaeus, etc.). 



4033. Lactophrys trigonus (Linnaeus). Common trunkfish; Chapin; Shellfish; 



Cuckold; Boxfish. 

 West Indies, north to Bermuda and Key West; occasionallj' northward 



in Gulf Stream to Holmes Hole, Mass., and Chesapeake Bay. 

 Ostracion trigonus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 330, India. 

 Ostracion yalei Storer, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., I, 1836, 353, Holmes 



Hole and Marthas Vineyard. 

 Ostracion undulatus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 441, Habana. 

 Ostracium expansum Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, 474, 



figs. 9-10, locality unknown. 



Genus 1445. ACANTHOSTRACION Bleeker. 



Acanihostracion Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., V, 1865, 27, (Ostracion quadri- 

 cornis hinniBiis = Ostracion tricornis Linnaeus). 



4034. Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus). Cuckold; Toro; Cowfish; 



Horned tru nkfish . 

 Tropical seas; common from Carolina to Brazil; Marquesas Islands; 



Florida Keys; occasionally at Pcnsacola and Galveston and north in 



the Gulf Stream to Charleston and Chesapeake Bay. 

 Ostracion tricornis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 331, "India"; 



after Artedi. 

 Ostracion quadricornis Linnaeus, loc. cit., 331, "India"; after Artedi; 



(this name preferred to the preceding by the first reviser). 

 Ostracion lister Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1798, 468; after Wil- 



loughby. 

 Ostracion sexcornutus Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., II, 1818, 328, mouth 



of Mississippi River. 

 Ostracion guineensis Bleeker, Ned Tydskr. Dierk., II, 1865?, 298, 



Guinea. 

 Ostracion gronovii Bleeker, loc. cit., II, 298, Guinea. 

 Acanthostracion pob/gonius Poey, Enumeratio, 1876, 175, Cuba. 



Suborder GYMNODONTES 



FamUy 299. TETRAODONTID.^. Puffers 



Genus 1446. lAGOCEPHALUS " Swainson. 



Lagocephalus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fishes, II, 1839, 194, 328 

 (Tetraodon stellatus Donovan). 



4035. Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnajus). Smooth puffer; Rabbitfish; Smooth 



swell fish; Tambnr. 

 Cape/5od to Brazil; rare north of Cape Hatteras. 

 Tetrodon Ixvigatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, 411, Charleston, 



o. C 

 Tetrodon curvus Mitchill. Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc, I, 1815, 472, New York. 

 Tetrodon malhematicus Mitchill, loc. cit., I, 1815, 474, New York. 

 Holocanthus melanothos Gronow, Syst. Nat., ed. Gray, 1854, 24, Caro- 



linas. 

 Tetrodon lineolalus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 432, Cuba. 



4036. Lagocephalus pachycephalus (Ranzani). Jugfish. 



Jamaica to Brazil. 



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

 IV, 1840, 73, PI. X, fig. 2, Brazil. 



" The American species of Lagocrphnliix are very well separated from Sphceroida but various Japanese 

 species of the former genus grade o(t into the latter. 



