Canthigaster Swainson [W.] 1839:194 Fem. Tetrodon rostratus Bloch 1786. Type by subsequent designation. Name changed to Psilonodus on p. 328. Type designated by Bleeker 1866:12 [ref. 417]. Misspelled or unjustifiably emended to Canthogaster by Bleeker 1866:19 [ref. 417]. •Valid as Canthigaster Swainson 1839 -- (Torchio 1973:647 [ref. 6892], Allen & Randall 1977 [ref. 6714], Tyler 1980:341 [ref. 4477], Arai 1983:207 [ref. 14249], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:365 [ref. 6441], Smith & Heemstra 1986:898 [ref. 5714], Matsuura 1986 [ref. 6715], Randall & Cea Egaña 1989 [ref. 9295], Matsuura & Tyler 1997:200 [ref. 23219], Lindberg et al. 1997:160 [ref. 23547], Matsuura 2001:3955 [ref. 26317], Moura & Castro 2002:33 [ref. 25970], Shipp 2003:1989 [ref. 27120], Hoese et al. 2006:1916 [ref. 29099], Randall et al. 2008:3 [ref. 29943], Williams et al. 2012:80 [ref. 32264], Kottelat 2013:473 [ref. 32989], Matsuura 2014:20 [ref. 33576], Stewart & Roberts 2015:1734 [ref. 34322], Motomura et al. 2017:236 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:385 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:182 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:183 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:334 [ref. 36673], Matsuura et al. 2020:81 [ref. 37714], Fricke et al. 2022:257 [ref. 39016]). Current status: Valid as Canthigaster Swainson 1839. Tetraodontidae.