S73 
TETRAODOK 
The jaws divided in the middle hy a suture above and below, so 
as to present the appearance of forming four prominent teeth. The 
lower portion of the body covered with spines, and capable of being 
inflated; orifice of the gills small. 
PENNANT’S GLOBEFISH. 
Tetraodon stellatm, 
H ft 
K (( 
Tetrodun Pennantii, 
ELEMme; Br. Animals, p. 174. 
Donovan; PI. 66. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 489. 
Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 457. 
This fish is seen so seldom, and for the most part within 
such a limited district, that we may suppose its native haunts 
to be at some considerable depth of a confined space in the 
ocean; from which its wanderings have been caused by some 
unusual influence, which probably may be disease. Yet an 
exception to this latter remark may apply to an example that 
was met with in the Solent water, where the tide retires to a 
large distance, by which means this Globefish, which measured 
a little more than twenty inches, was left, in the possession of 
active strength, in a hollow of the wide-extended sands of that 
shore. 
I owe to the kindness of the Earl of Enniskillen the inform- 
ation of an example that measured seventeen inches, which 
was caught at Charmouth, in Dorsetshire; and from Mr. 
Thompson and his Editors we learn that three have been taken 
in Ireland; two of which were in the county of Wexford, and 
the third on the coast of Waterford. In Cornwall one was 
taken near Polperro, and several have been obtained in Mount’s 
Bay; of two of which we give the particulars, as they in some 
degree throw light on the actions of this fish; and especially 
