lobatus, Canthogaster Steindachner [F.] 1870:640 [18], Pl. 5 (fig. 3) [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 61 (1. Abth.); ref. 4218] Altata, west coast of Mexico, eastern Pacific. Holotype (unique): NMW. On p. 18 of separate. •Valid as Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner 1870) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:55 [ref. 39147] as Spheroides lobatus, Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:299 [ref. 9277], Pequeño 1989:77 [ref. 14125], Allen & Robertson 1994:301 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:156 [ref. 23101], Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995:1635 [ref. 22830], Walker & Bussing 1996:677 [ref. 22229], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:304 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:653 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:145 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:516 [ref. 24550], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:126 [ref. 25206], Thomson et al. 2000:278 [ref. 25640], Ebert 2001:77 [ref. 25494], Nelson et al. 2004:185 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:180 [ref. 37547], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], McMahan et al. 2013:454 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:191 [ref. 32708], Barriga Salazar 2014:119 [ref. 35745], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:409 [ref. 34894], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:612 [ref. 34923], Fourriére et al. 2016:451 [ref. 34668], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:151 [ref. 34871], Kells et al. 2016:340 [ref. 35888], González-Murcia et al. 2019:309 [ref. 36544], Walker et al. 2020:4 [ref. 37499], Love et al. 2021:226 [ref. 39279], Hunt et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40687], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:433 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Sphoeroides lobatus (Steindachner 1870). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Chile, including southern and central Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: brackish, marine.