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4062. Cyclichthys schoepfl (Walbaum). Burrfish; Cucumber fish; Spotted bal- 



loot) fish; Balloonfish; Rabbit fish; Swelltoad; Spiny boxfish. 

 Cape "Cod to West Indies and occasionally northward to Woods Hole, 



Mass. 

 Diodon schccpfi Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, 601, Long Island; after 



Schopf. 

 IDiodon meulenii Walbaum, loc. cit., 602; no locality. 

 Diodon geometricus lineatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 



513, New York. 

 Diodon maciilato striatus Mitchill, Fish. N. Y., 470, pi. 56, fig. 3, 814, 



New York. 

 Diodon rivulatus Cuvier, M6m. Mus. Hist. Nat., IV, 1818, 129, pi. 6, 



New York 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1842, 68, 

 Fauna: Fishes, 324, 1842, pi. 56, 



Diodon nigrolineatus Ayres, Proc. 



Brookhaven, Long Island. 

 Diodon verrucosus DeKay, N. Y. 



fig. 184, New York. 



4063. Cyclichthys spinosus (Linnaeus). 



West Indies and coast of Brazil. 



Guamaicu atinga Marcgrave, Hist. Brasil., 1648, 168, Brazil. 



Diodon spinosus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 335, India. 



Le Diodon orbe Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1798, 16, Rio Janeiro. 



Diodon geometricus Bloch and Schneider, Ichth., 1801, 513, pi. 96, 



America. 

 Cyclichthys cornutus Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, 1855, 231, Bahia. 



4064. Cyclichthys fuliginosus (DeKay). Black burrfish; Unspotted balloon- 



fish. 

 Atlantic coast from Cape Cod southward; not common. 

 Diodon fuliginosus DeKav, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 324, pi. 55, 



fig. 181, New York Harbor. 



4065. Cyclichthys antillarum (Jordan and Rutter). 



Cul)a and Jamaica. 



Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan and Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., XLIX, 1897, 131, Kingston, Jamaica. 



4066. Cyclichthys briareos (Metzelaar). 



Lesser Antilles. 



Chilomycterus briareos Metzelaar, Trop. Atl. Vissch., 1919, 173, fig. 55, 



St. Eustatius. 



4067. Cyclichthys antennatus (Cuvier). 



West Indies and southward; St. Croix; Jamaica; Porto Rico; Cape of 



Good Hope. 

 Diodon antennatus Cuvier, Mdm. Mus. Hist. Nat., IV, 1818, 131; no 



locality. 

 7 Chilomycterus puncticulatus Poey, Anal. Soc. Espanola Hist. Nat., 



X, 1881, 346, Porto Rico. 



Genus 1456. CHILOMYCTERUS Bibron. Burrfishes. 



Chilomycterus Bibron, in Barneville, Rev. Zool., 1846, 40 (Diodon 



reticulatus Linnaeus = Diodon atinga Linnaeus). 

 Cyanichthys Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, IV, 1855, 231 (C. cserulxus 



Kaup; not of Quoy and Gaimard). 

 Diodon Bleeker, Atlas Ind. Gymnod., 1865, 55 (D. atinga); not of 



authors, who, after Kaup, restrict Diodon to D. hystrix. 



Subgenus CHILOMYCTERUS Bibron. 



4068. Chilomycterus atinga (Linnaeus). Atinga. 



West Indies to Bermuda and Florida Keys. 



Diodon atinga (misprinted alringa) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 



3.34, India. 

 Diodon reticulatus Linnaeus, loc. cit., 334, India; after Artedi. 



4069. Chilomycterus afRnis Giinther. 



Galapagos; coast of southern California; Hawaii, Japan; scarce. 



Chilomycterus affinis Giinther, Cat., VIII, 1870, 314, no locality; Cali- 

 fornia? 



Chilomycterus calif or niensis Eigenmann, Anier. Nat., V, 1891, 1133, 

 San Pedro, Calif. 



