Sphoeroides Anonymous [Lacepède [B. G. E.]] 1798:676 Masc. Tetrodon spengleri Bloch 1785. Apparently the first latinization of Sphéroïdes Lacepède 1798:table. Tortonese 1973:646 cites Lacepède as author. Type as given by Jordan for Spheroides Duméril; see also Jordan 1923:240 [ref. 2421]. Technical addition of species not researched. On Code recommendation 51D, the anonymous author is listed in square brackets. Misspelled Sphæroïdes by Billberg 1833:53 [ref. 34146]; see also Kullander 2016:110 [ref. 34147]. •Valid as Sphoeroides Anonymous [Lacepède] 1798 -- (Tortonese 1973:646 [ref. 7192], Arai 1983:207 [ref. 14249], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:364 [ref. 6441], Smith & Heemstra 1986:902 [ref. 5714], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1344 [ref. 13677], Walker & Bussing 1996:677 [ref. 22229], Matsuura & Tyler 1997:202 [ref. 23219], Lindberg et al. 1997:169 [ref. 23547], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:511 [ref. 24550], Matsuura 2001:3955 [ref. 26317], Shipp 2003:1989 [ref. 27120], Parin 2003:S34 [ref. 28536], Hoese et al. 2006:1925 [ref. 29099], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:76 [ref. 36649], Shinohara et al. 2011:58 [ref. 31715], Matsuura 2014:20 [ref. 33576], Parin et al. 2014:552 [ref. 33547], Stewart & Roberts 2015:1739 [ref. 34322], Fricke et al. 2018:389 [ref. 35805], Brown et al. 2019:184 [ref. 36444], Araujo et al. 2023:3 [ref. 40392], Hunt et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40687]). Current status: Valid as Sphoeroides Anonymous [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae.