PLATE 94 
PLATE LXVI. 
TETRODON STELLATUS. 
STELLATED GLOBE-FISH, 
**** PISCES BRACHIOSTEGI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Jaws bony, extending, divided at the tip: aperture of the gills 
linear : body muricated beneath : no ventral fins. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body above blue, beneath silvery : abdomen spinous, each spine 
arising from a stellated root, of four rays. 
Tetrodon Stellatus: supra coeruleus subtus argenteus, abdo- 
mine aculeato : aculeorum radicibus stellatis qua- 
dri-radiatis. 
Globe Diodon. Penn. Brit. Zool. v. 3 , p. 132 . sp. 56. 
The stellated Globe-fish, is one of the most singular creatures of 
Ae finny tribe hitherto detected in the British seas. A fish of this 
curious kind is described by Pennant in the British Zoology as a 
