PISCES. 117 



TELEOSTOMI. ACANTHOPTERI. 



TETRAODONTIDAE. 



271. Spheroides spengleri (Bloch). 

 Swelltoad; Tambor. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1732; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 264, fig. 644. 



Tetrodon sjpengleri Bloch, Nat. ausl. fische, 1785, vol. 2, p. 135, 

 pi. 144. "East Indies." 



Mass.— Woods Hole (Smith 1898). 



272. Spheroides maculatus (Bloch & Schneider). 

 Swellfish; Puffer; Swelltoad; Baloonfish; Bellowsfish. 



Jordan & Evermann Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1733; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 264, fig. 645. 



Tetrodon hispidus var. maculatus Bloch & Schn., Syst. ichth.,, 

 1801, p. 504. "Long Island." 



Tetraodon turgidus Mitchill. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad. 1863, 

 vol. 8, p. 417, pi. 33, fig. 5. 



Me.— Small Point, Casco Bay (Smith & Kendall 1896). 



Mass. — Boston, Holmes Hole (Storer 1839); Nahant; Manem- 

 sha Creek (Storer 1863); Massachusetts Bay (B. S. N. H., Storer 

 coll.); Salem Harbor (Wheatland 1852); Provincetown (Goode & 

 Bean 1879); Cohasset Narrows (Bean 1880); North Truro; Mon- 

 omoy (Kendall coll. 1896); Woods Hole (Baird 1873; Bean 1880 

 and Smith 1898); Nantucket (Sharp & Fowler 1904). 



R. I. — Narragansett Bay (R. I. fish comm. 1899). 



Conn.— "Very common" (Linsley 1844); Noank (Bean 1880); 

 off Branford Beacon (Kendall coll. 1892). 



273. Spheroides testudineus (Linne). 



Tambor; Globefish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1734;. 1900, pt. 4, pi. 265, fig. 646. 



