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Tetraodon hifpidus.Head and body, as far as 
the dorfal fin and the vent, covered with numerous fmall fpinesj 
thole of the belly retra&ile: belly inflated: tail even at the end. 
D. 8. P. 27. V. 6. 
Inhabits the Indian ocean and the Mediterranean fea. From 
the figure of this filh, in Rondeletius and other writers, it appears 
to have the power of inflating its belly confiderably more than the 
one from which the above drawing is taken j and which had 
probably fhrunk in the fpirits in which it is preferred, 
