I CE TH YU LOGIC A L MI, SC ' E L LA YEA 
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Family TETRAQ DONTI DTE. 
Spheroides (Lagoeepbalus) inermis Temminck & Schlegel). 
Tetraodon inermis Temminck & Schlegel, Faun. Japan., Poiss., 1850, p. 278, pi. cxxii, fig. 2. 
Simabara Bay, Japan. 
An 18-inch specimen (I. 4657) from Woody Point, Moreton Bay. 
Presented by G. Thompson. 
Genus TORQUIGENER nov. 
Orthotype, S-pheroides tuberculiferus Ogilby. 
A row of papillae before the gill-openings. Chin prominent, deep, 
plicated. Nostrils in the form of a rounded papilla with two perforations. 
Nine or ten dorsal rays. Dorsal and anal fins elevated, acute. Caudal fin 
rounded but with the outer rays slightly produced. Lateral line system well 
developed. A fold on each side of body. Skin of back, sides, and belly with 
spaced spines. 
Torquigener tuberculiferus (Ogilby). 
Spheroides tuberculiferus Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. i, Nov. 27, 1912, p. 61, pi. xiv, fig. 1. Moreton 
Bay and Wide Bay, Q. Id. McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour iii, 1915, p. 168 (not figure). 
Three specimens (1. 348) from Moreton Bay. 
Torquigener tuberculiferus vicinus subsp. nov. 
Spheroides tuberculiferus McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour iii, 3, April 21, 1915, p. 168, pi. xxxiv, 
fig. 1. Western Australian specimens only. 
After comparing Western Australian specimens with typical Queensland 
forms, I regard the Australian Museum specimen figured by McCulloch as the 
type of a new subspecies. It is closely allied to T . tuberculiferus but has the 
spines of the ventral surface not extending so far forward on to the chin, 
nostrils in higher papillae, and smaller spots on cheeks. 
The following new names have been proposed in this paper : — 
Subfamily : Paradicichthyince. Genera or subgenera : Crenalticus, Dubi- 
blennius, Gergobius, Lovamia, Negoscartes, Nixiblennius, Nofua, Notoclinops, 
Ostreoblennius, Paradicichthys, Parochusus, Pictiblennius , Pranesus, Repotrudis, 
Rhabdoblennius, Suggrundus, Tandya, Torquigener, Yarica, Zabidius, and 
Zeablennius. Species : Paradicichthys venenatus, Petroscirtes ( Ostreoblennius ) 
steadi, Pranesus ogilbyi, and Triorus pyxis. Subspecies : Torquigener tuberculiferus 
vicinus. 
