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 DIODONTID^. 



PAEADIODON HYSTEIX, {Linne) Bleeker. 

 Sea Hedgehog; Sea Porcupine. 



Guamajacu Guara, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brazil. 1648, 158. 



Diodon Hystrix, Link:6, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 335; ed. 12, 1, 1766, 413 (not Gmeliu) 



Linn^, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 449, according to Barneville, Eevue zoologique 



1846, 141).— POEY, Mem. ii, 1861, 361.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 



1870, 306.— Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 480. 

 Paradiodon liysirix, Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. v, 1865, tab. ccvii, f. 2. — Poey, Eep. Fis. 



Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 430. 

 Erizo, Parra, Desc. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, 60, lam. xxix, f. 1-2. 

 Diodon atinga, Bloch, Ichth. iv, 1787, 75, taf. cxxv, (not Linn^). — Gmelin, Linn6, 



Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 1449.— Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 511.— Lace- 



PtiDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, 1801, 1-3.— Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1804, 434.— MtJu.. 



& Trosch. in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 1848, 677. — Kaup, Wiegmann's 



Arch. Naturg. xxi, 1855, 227. — Jouan, Anim. Nouv. Caledonie, Mem. Soc. 



Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 1861-'63, 18.— Bleeker, Enum. Pise. Arch. Ind. 



1859, 203. 

 Diodon attinga, Euppell. Verzeichn. Senckenb. Mus. Fisch. 182, 35. 

 Diodon Plumieri, Lacepede, op. cit. ii, 1, 1801, 1-10, pi. iii, f. 3. 

 Diodon Brachiatus, Schneider, op. cit. 213 (founded on Parra's figure No. 1, cited 



above.) 

 Diodon punctatus, Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. iv, 1818, 132, and E^gne Animal, 



1817, p. — . — Bleeker, Verhaudl. Bat. Gen. xxiv, Blootk. Vissch. 1852, 19. 



This species, commou in the West Indies, recorded also from the 

 Pacific and the Indian Archipelago, is occasionally found here, and, on 

 account of its bristly siiiu, is greatly prized by curiosity -hunters. It is 

 never eaten. I saw four specimens, each about eighteen inches long. 



OHILOMYCTERUS RETICULATUS, {Linn.) Bibron. 



Orhis murieaius et reticulatus, Willughby, Ichthyographia, 1685, 155, tab. J, No. vii. — 



Seba, Locup. Eer. Nat. Thes. Desc. iii, 1758, 58, tab. xxiii, f. 3. 

 Osfradon siiirotundus, aeuleis undique irevibus triquetris raris, Artedi, Gen. Pise. 1738, 



52, No. 16. 

 Diodon reticulatus, Linne, Syst. Nat. 1, 1758, 334. — Gmelin, Linn^, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 



1449. 

 Chilomycterus reticulatus, Bibron apud Barneville, Eevue Zoologique, 1846, 141. — 



Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. v, 1865, 54. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. viii, 1870, 



313. 

 Diodon airinga j3, LiNNii, op. cit. ed. 12, 1, 1766, 413. 

 f Diodon atinga, Poey, Mem. ii, 1861, 361; Eep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 429.— Cope, 



Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 480. 



