CHECK LIST OF FISHES 501 



Family 301. DIODONTID^ 



Genus 1453. DIODON Linnaeus. Porcupine fishes. 



Diodon Linnseus, Svst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 335 {D. hystrix Linnaeus). 

 Paradiodon Bleeker, Neder. Tijdschr. Dierk., II, 1865, 271 {Diodon 

 hystrix Linnaeus). 



4058. Diodon hystrix Linnaeus. Porcupinefish; Erizo; Puerco espino; Soursap. 



Tropical seas, north to Lower California, Hawaii, and Florida. 

 Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 335, India; after 



Artedi. 

 Guamajacu guara INIarcgrave, Hist. Xat. Bras., 1648, 159, Brazil. 

 Erizo Parra, Desc. Dif. Piezas Hist. Xat. Cuba, 1787, 60, pi. 29, fig. 1, 



Habana. 

 Le Diodon plumier Lac6pede, Hist. Xat. Poi.ss., II, 1798, 1, pi. 3, fig. 3, 



Martinique. 

 Diodon brachiatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 513, Cuba. 

 Diodon piinctatus Cuvier, Mem. du Mus. d'Hi.st. Xat., IV, 1818, 132, 



no locahty. 

 Diodon echinus Rafinesque, in Bonaparte, Cat. Met. Pise. Eur., 1846, 



87, Mediterranean Sea. 



4059. Diodon holacanthus Linnaeus. Balloonfish. 



All warm seas; north to Florida Keys, Lower California, and Hawaiian 



Islands. 

 Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 335, India; based 



on Artedi (misprint).* 

 Erizo guanabana Parra, Desc. Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 62, 



pi. 29, fig. 2, Habana. 

 Le Diodon tachetd Lac(5p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1798, 13, New Cy- 



therea. 

 Diodon litiirosus Shaw, Gen. Zool., V, 1804, 436; after Lae6pede. 

 Diodon spinosissimus Cuvier, M6m. Mus. Hist. Nat., IV, 1818, 134, 



pi. 7, no locality. 

 Diodon novem-maculalus Cuvier, loc. cit., 130, pi. 6, no locality. 

 Diodon sex-jnaculatus Cuvier, loc. cit., 136, pi. 7, no locality. 

 Diodon midtimaculatus Cuvier, loc. cit., 137, no locality. 

 Diodon 4-mnculatus Cuvier, loc. cit., 137, pi. 6, Otaiti. 

 Diodon maculatus var. a, Gimther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 307, St. Croix; 



Jamaica; Panama; South .\merica, etc.; after Lac6p4de. 

 Diodon melanopsis Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1855, 228. 



4060. Diodon maculifer Kaup. 



Cape of Good Hope; recorded doubtfully from Cuba. 

 Diodon maculifer Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1855, 229, Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



Genus 1454. TRICHODIODON Bleeker. 



Trichodiodon Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., Gymnodontes, V, 1867, 49 (Diodon 



pilosus Mitchill). 

 Trichocyclus Giinther, Cat., VIII, 316 (T. erinaceus Giinther). 



4061. Trichodiodon pilosus (Mitchill). Balloonfish; Hairy porcupinefish; 



Hairy boxfish. 

 New York. 

 Diodon pilosus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 471- 



supposed to be from New York Harbor. 

 Diodon asper Cuvier, M<5m. Mus. Hist. Nat., IV, 1818, 138; no locality. 

 ITnchocyclus erinaceus Giinther, Cat., VII, 1870, 316; no locality. 



Genus 1455. CYCLICHTHYS Kaup. Stvelltoads. 



Cyclichthys Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, XXI, 1855, 231 {Diodon orbicu- 

 lalus Bloch). 



