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4052. Tetraodon hispidus Linnaeus. Maki-7naki; Kete. 



Panama and neighboring islands; Hawaii; Samoa; to China and the 



Red Sea. 

 Tetraodon hispidus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 333, India. 

 Tetraodon perspicillaris Riippell, Atlas, Reise Nord Africa, 1828, 63, 



Red Sea. 

 Tetrodon implidus Jenj'ns, Voy. Beagle, Fish., 1842, 152, Keeling Island. 

 Tetrodon laterna Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Zool., 1844, 124, pi. 61, 



fig. 2, Canton, China. 

 Arothron erethizon^* Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 



1882, 631, Panama. 



Subgenus OVOIDES Cuvier. 



4053. Tetraodon setosus Smith. 



West coast of Mexico; Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos 



Islands. 

 Tetraodon setos^is Smith, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., VI, Nov. 13, 



1SS6, Mexico. 



Genus 1450. GUENTHERIDIA Gilbert and Starks. 



Guentheridia Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., IV, 1904, 158 

 {Tetrodon formosus Giintlier). 



4054. Guentheridia formosa (Giinther). 



Panama. 



Tetrodon formosus Gimther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 283, "South America." 



Genus 1451. COLOMESUS Gill. 



Colomesus Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 422 (Tetrodon psittacus 

 Bloch and Schneider). 



4055. Colomesus psittacus (Bloch and Schneider). 



River mouths, Guiana and northern Brazil; Rio Branco, Essequibo, 

 Maraiion, and Capin at Para; West Indies in fresh waters only. 



Tetrodon psittacus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 505, "Mal- 

 abar." 



Cheilichthys asellus MuUer and Troschel, in Schomburgk, British 

 Guiana, III, 1848, 641, Guiana. 



Family 300. CANTHIGASTERID.ffi. Sharp-nosed puffers 



Genus 1452. CANTHIGASTER Swainson. 



Canthignster Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1835, 194 

 (Tetraodon rostratus Bloch, called Psilonotus later in the text). 



Psilonotus Swainson, loc. cit., 1835, 328, same type. 



Prilonolus (Kaup) Mtiller, Richardson, Voyage Herald, 1854, 162 (Tetro- 

 don rostratus Bloch). 



Tropidichthys Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Neder-Indie, VI, 501 (T. margari- 

 tatus Bleeker). 



Anosmius Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, XXI, 1855, 274 (T. 

 tssTfidtus Peters) . 



Eumycterias Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XIX, 1899, 399 (E. bitseni- 

 otus Jenkins). 



4056. Canthigaster rostratus (Bloch). 



West Indian fauna; Pensacola; Madeiras and Bermudas. 



Tetrodon rostratus Bloch, Ichth., I, 1782, pi. 146, India. 



Tetrodon capistratus Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 90, Madeira. 



Prilonotus (Anchisomus) caudacinctus Richardson, Voyage Herald, 1854, 



162, pi. 30, figs. 1-3, locality unknown. 

 Tetrodon ornatus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 433, Cuba. 



4057. Canthigaster punctatissimus (Giinther). 



Pacific coast of America, Gulf of California to Panama. 

 Tetrodon punctatissimus Giinther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 302, Panama. 

 Tetrodon oxyrhynchus Lockington, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXXIII, 

 1881, 116, Gulf of California. 



»* This American form shows no distinction from the widespread Tetraodon hispidus. 



