169 
Sulu Sea; Nagasaki to Misaki, Sagami; all warm seas), 
and Fish. Hawaian Islds. in Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm. | 
XXili, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 436 (in all warm seas, its range 
coinciding with D. hysirix, from which it may prove 
to be not distinct). 
Diodon spinostssimus, Cuv. Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. iv, 1818, 
-p. 134 (no locality stated); Gitinth. Cat. Fish. viii, p. 
307, 1870 (Cape of Good Hope; Siam); Gilchr. Cat. 
Fish. 1902, p. 160 (S. Africa). 
Diodon melanopsis, Kaup. Wiegm. Arch. 1855, p. 228. 
Diodon hystrix, Linn. 
(Porcupine-fish ; Zee-vark.) 
Orbis echinatus, Rondel. De Pisc. p. 324, 1558 (Northern 
Ocean). 
iaasutx, pisces, Clusius, Exot. vi, cap. 23, 1605;. Jonston, 
ee, tab. 3. fig, 1, 1640. 
Guamajacu guava, Marg. Hist Nat. Brazil, p.°159, 1649 
(Brazil). 
Ostracion conico oblungus, Artedi, Genera, p. 60, no. 19; 1738, 
and Synon. p. 86, no. 21, 1738. 
Crayracion sp. Klein, Pisc. Miss. i, p. 20, nos. 13 and 14, 
1742. 
Ostracion sp., Gronov. Mus. ui, p. 40, no. 181, 1756, and Zoophyl. 
Prey, NO. 11, 1763. 
Ped, eerta, Weser. Dit. Piezas_ Hist. Nat..Cuba, p. 60, pl. 
20g. 1, 1787 (Havana). 
Diodon hystrix, Linn. Syst. Nat. roth Ed. p. 335, 1758 (India) ; 
BE -ichth; pl. cexxvi, 1787; Bms de.Barmey.. Rev. Zool. 
TAC, p, i417  jerdon,. Madras) Journ. .Lit. and Sc. 1851, 
p. 150; Cast. Mem. p. 74, name only, 1861 (Gape Seas) ; 
Gumth. Cat. Bish. vill, p. 306, 1870 (Gaboon ; Fernando 
Po; Calabar; West Indies; Jamaica; Gape Seas ; 
Indian Ocean ; Amboyna ; Society Islds.), and Challenger, 
Shore Fishes, p. 58, name only, 1880 (Tahiti); Klunz. 
isehe InothaMeer!71671, p. 047 5--Day,. Fish. Ind. ‘p. 
708, pl. clxxix, fig. 4, 1878 (Andamans ; Red Sea ; through 
seas of India to Malay Archipelago and to Pacific) ; 
NordeneemGill “Synops. p1'863)7 16834 Jord. s& Rutter, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1897,. p-1130:;. Jord. & Everm. 
Fish. N. and Mid. Amer. p. 1745, 1898 (Tropical seas, 
everywhere common ; north to Lower California, Florida, 
and the, Hawanan’ dslds.: Seale Fish. Guam: in: Occ, 
papers Bishop Mus. 1, pt. 3, 1900, p. 120 (Marianas ; 
“Seas of India; Western Pacific); Everm. & Marsh 
Fish; Porto) Kico, i-BullsU.S. Fish. Comm. xx,, pt. 1, 
1900, p. 271 (tropical seas, common, north to Lower 
California, Florida and Hawaiian Islds.; Jamaica ; 
Hotto Rico) ;, Delfin, Cat. Pecis.. Chile, p. 77, 1901,(Pascua 
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