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Genus 1447. SPHCEROIDES Lacepede. Swellfishes. 



Les Spheroides Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., II, 1798, 22, PI. I, fig. 1 



{La Spheroide tubercuUe, a front view of Tciraodon spengleri Bloch). 

 SphoBroides, Allegem. Lit. Zeit. Berlin, Sept. 24, 1798, unsigned review, 



adopts this spelling as a technical name for the genus. 

 Spheroides Dumeril, Zool. Anal., 1806, 342; after Lacepede. 

 Orbidus Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, 1815, 90 (substitute for Les 



SphSroides Lac6pede). 

 Crayracion Klein, Gesellschaft Schauplatz, IV, 1777, 788 (Tetraodon 



spengleri Bloch; not binomial); after Klein, 1742. 

 Holocanthns Gronow, Cat. Fish., 1854 (H. leionothus Gronow). 

 Anchisomus (Kaup) Richardson, Zool. H. M. S. Herald, 1854, 156 



{Tetraodon spengleri Bloch). 

 Crayracion Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1865, 65 {Tetraodon spengleri Bloch). 

 Stenometopus Bibron, Rev. Mag. Zool., VIII, 1855, 279 {Tetraodon 



testudineus LinniBus) . 



4037. Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch and Schneider). Puffer; Swelltoad; 



Blower; Swcllbelly; Swell fish; Toad fish. 

 Atlantic coast of the United States from Cape Ann to St. Johns River 



and Biscayne Bay, Fla. 

 Telrodon hispidus Var. maculatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 



1801,504, Rhode Island; after Schopf. 

 Tetrodon turgidus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Sec. N. Y., I, 1815, 473, 



pi. 5, fig. 5, New York. 



4038. Sphoeroides spengleri (Bloch). Southern puffer; Sivelltoad; Tambor. 



West Indies; coasts of Texas and Florida, south to Rio Janeiro and to 

 the Madeiras and Canaries; rarely north to Woods Hole. 



Tetrodon spengleri Bloch, Ichth., I, 1782, 135, pi. 144, East Indies. 



Le Tetrodon Plumier Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1797, 504, Martinique. 



Le Spheroide tubercule Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1798, 22, Mar- 

 tinique. 



Sphseroides tuberculatus Pillot edition of Lacepede, VI, 1831, 279, 

 Martinique. 



4039. Sphoeroides nephelus (Goode and Bean). Puffer; Swelling fish. 



Florida. 



Tetrodon nephelus Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 

 412, Indian River and Pensacola, Fla. 



4040. Sphoeroides marmoratus (Ranzani). Spinyback blowfiish; Swellfish. 



\\'est Indies to Brazil; Jamaica. 



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

 IV, 1840, 72, pi. 10, fig. 1, Brazil. 



4041. 



4042. 



Sphoeroides harperi Nichols. 



West Indies (St. Eustatius) north to Florida. 

 Spheroides harperi Nichols, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 1914, 81, Cape Sable, Fla. 



Sphoeroides asterias (Blosser). 

 St. Croix. 



Spheroides asterias Blosser, Ann. 

 Croix. 



Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 



Carnegie Mus., VI, 300, 1909, St. 



4043. Sphoeroides eulepidotus (Metzelaar). 



Caribbean Sea. 



Tetrodon {Spheroides) eulepidotus Metzelaar, Trop. Atl. Visschen, 1919, 

 170, Curasao. 



4044. Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner). Botete. 



Gulf of California to Galapagos Islands; Mazatlan; Panama. 

 Canthogaster? lobatus Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, X, 1870, 18, pi. 5, 

 fig. 3, Altata. 



4045. Sphoeroides angusticeps (.Jcnyns). 



Pacific coast Lower California (La Paz), to the Galapagos Islands. 

 Telrodon angusticeps Jenyns, Voyage Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 154, 28, 

 Galapagos Islands. 



