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duce very painful wounds. Their flesh is toxic, but it has not been 
proved that poison-glands exist at the base of the spines. 
On the shores of the Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, China, and 
Japan these fishes are much feared. The principal species are 
Fic. 115.—Tetrodon stellatus (Indian and Pacific Oceans). (After Savtschenko.) 
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Fic. 116.—Tetrodon rubripes (Japan). (After Savtschenko.) 
Tetrodon stellatus (Indian and Pacific Oceans; fig. 115) and 
T. rubripes (Japan; fig. 116). 
Closely allied to. Diodon, and feared like the foregoing on account 
