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Species related to Sphoeroides testudineus: [ 3 ] records

testudineus, Tetraodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:332 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India [erroneous, probably meaning West Indies]. Syntypes: ZMUU Linn. Coll. 47 (1). Type catalog: Lönnberg 1896:21 [ref. 23530], Wheeler 1991:190-191, Fig. 28 [ref. 20102]. Based on the 'Ostracion oblongus glaber' of Artedi 1738:60 [ref. 30578] and 1738:86 [ref. 30349], which was based on the 'Orbis oblongus testudinis capite' of Clusius 1605:141 [ref. 38022], Willughby 1686: 147 (not 149) [ref. 30164] and Ray 1713:42 [ref. 30231]; and the 'Ostracion oblongus glaber' of Linnaeus 1749:309, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [ref. 38023]. •Valid as Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:474 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:307 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1992:450 [ref. 23827], Andreata & Séret 1996:590 [ref. 16204], Cervigón 1996:128 [ref. 24489], Greenfield & Thomerson 1997:258 [ref. 22947], Aguilera 1998:54 [ref. 24221], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:513 [ref. 24550], Keith et al. 2000:264 [ref. 24547], Marín 2000:80 [ref. 26252], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:171 [ref. 27754], Ebert 2001:31 [ref. 25494], Shipp 2003:2004 [ref. 27120], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:110 [ref. 27192], Smith et al. 2003:71 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:185 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:931 [ref. 28815], García-Hernández et al. 2009:94 [ref. 37265], Matamoros et al. 2009:27 [ref. 31241], Angulo et al. 2013:1011 [ref. 33194], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Page et al. 2013:191 [ref. 32708], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:88 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34961], Marceniuk et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35324], Costa et al. 2017:46 [ref. 35684], Raz-Guzmán et al. 2018:346 [ref. 36407], Spier et al. 2018:19 [ref. 36103], Ribeiro et al. 2019:9 [ref. 36717], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:78 [ref. 38844], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:717 [ref. 38945], Angulo et al. 2023:82 [ref. 40676], Carvalho-Filho 2023:285 [ref. 40480], Hunt et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40687]). Current status: Valid as Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus 1758). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: New York (U.S.A.) south to Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

psittacinus, Orbis Billberg [G. J.] 1833:53 [Linnéska Samfundets Handlingar v. 1 (for 1832); ref. 34146] India [erroneous, should be Western Atlantic] Syntypes: ZMUU Linn. Coll. 47 (1). Based on "Peroquet [sic] Lacep.", i.e. "Le Tétrodon perroquet" of Lacepède 1798:477 [ref. 2708], which is based on Tetraodon testudineus Linnaeus 1758; see Kullander 2016:114 [ref. 34147]. •Synonym of Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Kullander 2016:114 [ref. 34147]). Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus 1758). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

ammocryptus, Tetraodon Gosse [P. H.] 1851:287 [A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica; ref. 18149] Bluefields, Jamaica. Syntypes ?: BMNH 1846.7.10.9 (1, stuffed), 1846.10.28.26 (1). •Synonym of Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Ebert 2001:91 [ref. 25494]). Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides testudineus (Linnaeus 1758). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.