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Family DIODONTIDAE. 



DIODON Linnaeus, 17r)8 (hystrix). 

 DIODON HOLOCANTHUS Linnaeus (Porcupine Fish). 



Diodon holorantJiKs Tiimi., Syst. Nat. (ed. x), IT-IH, p. 38"). 



Diodon littirOfHis Shaw, (U'H. Zoo!., v, 18()(i. ]). 43(). 



Diodon spinosis.-i')»us. D. iioi^eiinnaci(l(iti(s, I). sexHKicuhitus, D. Diultiiiuicidatits 



and D. quadr)i)i<(rulafi(n Cnv., Mem. Mns. Hist. Nat., iv, 1818, p. 134.. 

 Diodon nicldiiopsi.^ Kaup., Wicj^iu. Arch., 18'),"), j). 228. 

 Pnradiodon novemmacidaiits and /-*. qttadrinuicidatin^ Bleek., Atlas TchtJL, v, 



1865, p. 57, 58, ]il. ccvi, fig'. 3 and ccxii, fig'. 2. 

 Diodon maculdtiis ({iintJL, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns., viii, 1870, p. 307. 



CHILOMYCTERUS Bibron, 1846 (roticulatns). 

 CHILOMYCTERUS JACULIFERUS Cuvier (Javelin Fish). 



Diodon jaeidiferus Vnx., Mem. Mns. Hist. Nat., iv, 1818, p. 130, pi. vii. 

 Chdomycterns jacidiferiis Giinth., Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns., viii, 1870, p. 313; Waite, 



Mem. Anst. Mas., iv, 1899, p. 98. 

 Dicotylichthys jacidi ferns Waite, Mem. N.S.W. Nat. Clnh, ii, 1904, p. 58. 



ATOPOMYCTERUS Bleeker, 1865 (nyclitliemerus). 

 ATOPOMYCTERUS NICHTHEMERUS Cuvier (Porcupine Fish). 



Diodon nichthemerus Cnv., Mem. Mns. Hist. Nat., iv, 1818, p. 135, pi. vii, fig. 5; 



Bleek., Verh. Akad. Wetens. Amsterd., ii, 1855, p. 45. 

 Atopomycterus nychthemerus Bleek., Atlas Ichth., v, 1865, p. 49; Giinth., Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mns., viii, 1870, p. 315. 



