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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 



Pig. 115. — Tetrodon stellalus (Indian and Pacific Oceans). (After Savt.schenko.) 



Pig. 110. — Tetrodon rubripcs (Japan). (After Savtsohenko.) 



Tetrodon stellatus (Indian and Pacific Oceans; fig. 115) and 

 T. rubripes (Japan; fig. IIG). 



Closely allied to Diodon, and feared like the foregoing on account 



