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species appears to be entirely littoral, estuarine and fluviatile. It ascends tidal rivers 

 and has been reported as far up as Saraghat in the Ganges. In the Amherst District 

 of Burma it is said to be found in hill streams. 



Tetrodon oblongus (Bloch). 



1785. Tetraodon oblongus, Bloch, Ausl. Fisch., II, p. 6, pi. cxlvi, fig. 1. 



1801. Tetraodon oblongus, Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., p. 504. 



1803. Tetraodon sp. (Kappa), Russell, Fish. Vizag., I, p. 17, pi. xxiv. 



1846. Tetrodon alboplumbeus , Richardson, Voy. Sulph. Ichthyol., p. 121, pi. lviii, figs. 6 and 7. 



1846. Tetrodon alboplumbeus, Id., Rept. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sc. (1845), p. 199. 



1849. Tetrodon oblongus, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1849), P- I 362. 



i860. Gastrophysus microphthalmus, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXIX, p. 174. 



1870. Tetrodon oblongus, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VIII, p. 278. 



1878. Tetrodon oblongus, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 702, pi. clxxx, fig. 2. 



1889. Tetrodon oblongus, Id., Faun. Brit. Ind. Fish., II, p. 492. 



1910. Tetrodon oblongus, Annandale and Jenkins, Mem. Ind. Mus., Ill, pp. 8 and 14. 



There is only one young specimen in the collection measuring 67 mm. in length ; 

 locality and date of capture are not noted. Probably the fish is a chance visitor to 

 the outer channel. 



Distribution: — Seas of India; Indian Ocean; Malay Archipelago ; China, Japan 

 and the South Sea. 



Tetrodon patoca, Hamilton Buchanan. 



1803. Tetraodon sp. (Kappa), Russell, Fish. Vizag., p. 18, pi. xxv. 



1822. Tetrodon patoca, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Ganges, pp. 7 and 363, pi. xviii, fig. 2. 



1849. Tetrodon dissutidens, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1849), p. 1364. 



1855. Tetrodon patoca, Duméril, Rev. Zool., p. 280. 



1865. Leiodon patoca, Bleeker, Atl. Ichthyol. Ind. Orient. Neerl. V, p. 76, pi. vi, fig. 2. 



1870. Tetrodon patoca, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VIII, p. 288. 



1878. Tetrodon patoca, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 703, pi. clxxxii, fig. 4. 



1889. Tetrodon patoca, Id., Faun. Brit. Ind. Fish., II, p. 492. 



1910. Tetrodon patoca, Annandale and Jenkins, Mem. Ind. Mus., Ill, p. 14. 



There are three specimens in the collection all of which are young, measuring 

 12 mm., 13 mm. and 25 mm. in length. They were collected in the latter half of the 

 month of March, 1913 and 1914 in Satpara Bay and near Satpara. Probably the fish 

 comes as far as the outer channel and breeds in the neighbourhood in February and 

 March, when the water is nearly as salt as the sea outside. 



Distribution : — From Sind through the seas of India to China. The fish is very 

 common along the Coromandel coast. The species is also common in the estuaries of 

 the Ganges. 



Tetrodon reticularis (Bloch and Schneider). 



1785. Tetraodon testudineus, Bloch, Ausl. Fisch., I, p. 123, pi. cxxxix. 



1801. Tetraodon testudineus, Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., p. 502. 



1801. Tetraodon reticularis, Id., ibid., p. 506. 



1803. Tetraodon sp. (Bondaroo Kappa), Russell, Fish. Vizag., I, p. 19, pi. xxvii. 



1804. Tetrodon testudineus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., V, p. 444, pi. clxxviii. 



