florealis, Tetrodon Cope [E. D.] 1871:479 [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series) v. 14 (pt 3) (art. 5); ref. 920] Hawaiian Islands. Lectotype: ANSP 1109. Paralectotypes: ANSP 1110 (1). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:160 [ref. 13621]. Lectotype selected by Hardy 1983:68 [ref. 5342]. Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. •Valid as Torquigener florealis (Cope 1871) -- (Hardy 1983:68 [ref. 5342], Hardy 1989:122 [ref. 17672], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:51 [ref. 27712], Mundy 2005:537 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:496 [ref. 30952], Psomadakis et al. 2020:625 [ref. 37272]). Current status: Valid as Torquigener florealis (Cope 1871). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: India and Myanmar east to Hawaiian Islands, north to southern Japan. Habitat: marine.