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Genus 1448. CHEILICHTHYS MiiUer. 



Cheilichthys :Muller, Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1839, 252 {Tetraodon 



testudineus Linnaius). 

 Apsicephalus Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., VIII, 1857, 275 {Tetrodon 

 fluviatilis Hamilton). 



4046. Cheilichthys testudineus (Linnaeus). Tamhor; Glovefish; Blowfish; 



Swell fish; Puffer. 

 West Indies; Gulf Stream, occasionalh' to Newport, R. I. 

 Orbis Isevis variegatus Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolinas, II, 1743, 28, pi. 



28, Virginia. 

 Tetraodon testudineus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 332, India; 



based on Balk and Artedi. 

 ITetrodon ■punclatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichtli., 1801, 506, 



Brazil. 

 Tetrodon geometricus Bloch and Schneider, loc. cit., 508, Virginia; after 



Catesby. 

 Tetraodon ammocryptus Gosse, Nat. Sojourn Jamaica, 1851, 287, 



Jamaica. 

 Holocanthus leionothos Gronow, Cat. Fishes, ed. Gray, 1854, 24, Amer- 

 ican oceans. 



4047. Cheilichthys annulatus (Jenyns). 



Pacific coast of tropical America; Galapagos Islands. 



Tetrodon' anmdatus Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, 1842, 153, Galapagos Islands. 



Anchisomus geometricus (Kaup) Richardson, Voyage Herald, 1854, 



156, pi. 30, Galapagos Islands. 

 Tetrodon heraldi Giinther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 283, Galapagos Islands 



and Panama. 



4048. Cheilichthys politus (Girard). 



Pacific coast of tropical America, San Diego to Mazatlan. 

 Tetraodon politus Girard, Pacific R. R. Surv., X, 1858, 340, San Diego, 

 Calif. 



4049. Cheilichthys furthi (Steindachner). 



Panama. 



Tetrodon furthii Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., V, 1876, 22, Panama. 



4050. Cheilichthys trichocephalus (Cope). Hairy blowfish. 



Gulf Stream off Newport, R. I.; only the type known. 

 Tetraodon trichocephalus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXII, 

 1870, 120, Gulf Stream off Newport, R. I. 



4051. Cheilichthys pachygaster (Miillcr and Troschel). 



Barbadfjs. 



Tetrodon (Cheilichthys) pachygaster MiiUer and Troschel, in Schom- 

 burgk's Hi.st. Barbados, 1848, 677, Barbados. 



Genus 1449. TETRAODON Linnaeus. 



Tetraodon Liniiaius, Syst. Xat., Kd. X, 1758, 333 (T. lineatus Linnaeus). 

 Les Ovoides Lac6podc, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., I, 1797, 256 (fa.sc^, face view). 

 Ovoides Cuvier, Lemons Anat. Comp., I, 1800, tab. 1 {Ovoides fasciatus 



hac6p^.de= Tetraodon stellntus Liiuiaeu.s). 

 Ovum Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 530 (O. commersoni 



Bloch and Schneider = "rOvoide Fascd" Lac(5pede, 1797); preoccupied 



in moUusks. 

 Oonidus Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., 1815,90, for "les Ovoides "of Lac6pede. 

 Arothron Muller, Abh. Akad. Wics. Berlin, 1839, 252 (A. testudinalus 



MnWcT— Tetraodon reticularis Bloch and Schneider). 

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



reticularis Bloch and Schneider). 

 EHcholomycler Bibron, loc. cit., 279 {Tetraodon pluviatiUs Hamilton). 



