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Genus 1457. LYOSPH^RA Evermann and Kendall. 



Lyosphxra Evermann and Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Com.j XVII, 1897, 

 131 (L. globosa Evermann and Kendall). 



4070. Lyosphasra globosa Evermann and Kendall. Marblefish. 



Atlantic coast of the United States; known from the mouth of the 

 Rappahannock River and from Biscayne Bay, Fla. 



Lyosphsera globosa Evermann and Kendall, BuU. U. S. Fish Com., 

 XVII, 1897, 131, pi. 9, figs. 11 and 12, Rappahannock River near 

 mouth of Windmill Creek, Va. 



Family 302. MOLIDiE. Headfishes 



Genus 1458. MOLA Kcelreuter. Headfishes. 



Mola Kcelreuter, Nova Comm. Act. Petropol., VII, 1770, 337 {Diodon 



viola Kcelreuter = Diodon viola Linnajus). 

 Mola Cuvier, Tableau Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., 1798, 323 {M. rotunda 



Cu\ieT=Tetrodon mola Linnajus). 

 Orthogoriscus Schneider, ed. Bloch, Svst. Ichth., 1801, 510 {Diodon mola 



Bloch). 

 Cephalus Shaw, Gen. Zool., V, 1804, 432 (Diodon viola Linnaeus). 

 Orthragus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 17 {Tetrodon mola Linnaeus). 

 Diplanchias Rafinesque, loc. cit., 17 (D. nasus Rafinesque). 

 Tympanomiuvi' Ranzani. Novi Comm. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bonon., Ill, 



1839, 81 {T. planci Ranzani). 

 Ozadura Ranzani, loc. cit., 81 (O. orsini Ranzani = .1/oZo mola Linnaeus). 

 Tremalopsis Ranzani, loc. cit., 81 (T. willughbcii Ranzani). 

 Pedalion Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. etc., I, 1838, 199, II, 195, 



329 {Tetrodon mola Linnccus). 

 Molacanthus Swainson, loc. cit., II, 1839, 329 {M. pallasi Swainson = 



Diodon mola Pallas, voung). 

 Pallasia Nardo, Ann." Sci. Lombardo-Vcncto, X, 1839, V, 10, 112 



(P. pallasi Nardo). 

 Acanthosoma DeKay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1842, 350 (A. carinatiim 



Do Kay). 

 Centaurus Kaup, Wicgemann's Archiv Naturg., XXI, 1855, 221 



{Ostracion boops Richardson; larval). 

 Aledon Castelnau, M6m. Poiss., Afr. Aust., VII, 1861, 75 {A. storeri 



Castelnau) . 



4071. Mola mola (Linnteus). Ocean sunfish; Globe fish; Sunfish; Headfish; 



Mola; Fez luna; Pez mola. 



Temperate and tropical seas, northward to England, Cape Cod, and 

 San Francisco; rare in the West Inrlies. 



Tetrodon mola Linnisus, Syst. Nat., Ed, X, 1758, 334, 412, Mediter- 

 ranean. 



Diodon carinalus Mitchill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, II, 1815, 

 264, pi. 5, fig. 1, New York. 



Ozodura orsini Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sci. Inst. Bonon., Ill, 1839, 

 82, Mediterranean Sea. 



Tympanomium planci Ranzani, loc. cit., table, Adriatic Sea. 



Diplanchias nasus Ranzani, loc. cit., table, "in marei siculo" (Sicily). 



Tremalopsis ivillughbei Ranzani, loc. cit., table, "in oceano." 



Orthragoriscus retzii Ranzani, loc. cit., table, no locality. 



Orthragoriscus ghini Ranzani, loc. cit., table, Mediterranean Sea. 



Orthragoriscus rondelelii Ranzani, loc. cit., Mediterranean Sea. 



Orthragoriscus blochii Ranzani, loc. cit., "in mari oceano." 



Orthragoriscus alexandrini Ranzani, loc. cit., Adriatic Sea. 



Orthragoriscus redi Ranzani, loc. cit., Mediterranean Sea. 



Orthragoriscus oculeatus Ranzani, loc. cit., no locality. 



Orthragoriscus elegans Ranzani, loc. cit., Atlantic Ocean. 



Orthragoriscus battarx Ranzani, loc. cit., Adriatic Sea. 



Orthragoriscus lunaris Gronow, Cat. Fishes, ed. Gray, 1854, 165, Medi- 

 terranean. 



Orthragoriscus Solaris Gronow, loc. cit., 165, Mediterranean. 



Orthragoriscus analis Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 1859, 31, 

 fig. .54, San Francisco. 



Ostracion boops Richardson, Voy, Erebus and Terror, Ichtli., 1844, 52, 

 South Atlantic (larva). 



