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 DIODONTIDA 



PARADIODON HYSTEIX, {Linne) Bleeker. 

 Sea Hedgehog; Sea Porcupine. 



Guamajaeu G-uara, Marcgrave, Hist. &c. Brazil. 1648, 158. 



Diodon Hystrix, Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 335 ; ed. 12, 1, 1766, 413 (not Gmelin) 



Linne, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 449, according to Barneville, Revue zoologique 



1S46, 141).— Poey, Mem. ii, 1861, 361.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., viii, 



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

 Paradiodon hyslrix, Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. v, 1865, tab. ccvii, f. 2.— Poey, Rep. 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 Linne"). — Gmelin, Linne, 



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



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



& Trosch. in Schomburgk, Hist. Barbados, 1848, K77. — Kaup, Wiegmann's 



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



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



1859, 203. 

 Diodon attinga, Ruppell. Verzeichu. Senckenb. Mus. Fisch. 182, 35. 

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

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



above.) 

 Diodon punciatus, Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. iv, 1818, 132, and Regne Animal, 



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



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

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

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

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



CHILOMYGTERUS RETICULATUS, {Linn.) Bibron. 



Orbis murkatu8 et reticulatus, Willughby, Ichthyographia, 1685, 155, tab. J, No. vii. — 



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

 Ostracion subrotundus, aculeis undique brevibus triquetris raris, Artedi, Gen. Pise. 1738, 



52, No. 16. 

 Diodon reticulatus, Linne, Syst. Nat. 1, 1758, 334.— Gmelin, Linn6, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 



1449. 

 Chilomycierus reticulatus, Bibron apud Barneville, Revue Zoologique, 1846, 141. — 



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



313. 

 Diodon atrinrja (i, Linne, op. cit. ed. 12, 1, 1766, 413. 

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



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



