Species that contain: Arothron and immaculatus [ 7 ] records

aspilos, Tetraodon Bleeker [P.] 1851:495 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 2 (no. 3); ref. 16898] Riau, Indonesia. Syntypes: (2). •Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Verruraj et al. 2011:7 [ref. 31496], Kottelat 2013:473 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

cochinensis, Crayracion Day [F.] 1865:314 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865 (pt 1); ref. 5295] Cochin, India. Holotype (unique): ZSI 2223 (lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:162 [ref. 23762]. Also appeared in Day 1865:258, Pl. 20 fig. 1 [ref. 1074]. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kottelat 2013:473 [ref. 32989] with question). Current status: Uncertain as Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

immaculatus, Tetrodon Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Lacepède) 1801:507 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] No locality stated. No types known. Based on "Tetrodon sans tache" of Lacepède 1798:475, 486, Pl. 24 (fig. 1). Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:603 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. •Valid as Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:306 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:284 [ref. 29757], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:365 [ref. 6441], Smith & Heemstra 1986:896 [ref. 5714], Allen & Swainston 1988:154 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:473 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:423 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:74 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:401 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:623 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:244 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:412 [ref. 25488], Myers 1999:289 [ref. 23965], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1429 [ref. 25182], Matsuura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:327 [ref. 27511], Ebert 2001:28 [ref. 25494], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3956 [ref. 26317], Nakabo 2002:1429 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:65 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:227 [ref. 27510], Adrim et al. 2004:127 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3332 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:452 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:645 [ref. 28239], Hoese et al. 2006:1914 [ref. 29099], Randall 2007:493 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:120 [ref. 30213], Matsuura 2009:335 [ref. 31171], Verruraj et al. 2011:7 [ref. 31496], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1087 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:236 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:472 [ref. 32989], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:434 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2018:384 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:181 [ref. 36273], Suresh et al. 2018:327 [ref. 36495], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:617 [ref. 37272], Yamakawa et al. 2020:77 [ref. 40470], Kaleshkumar et al. 2021:[4] [ref. 38263] as immaculate, Mary et al. 2021:398 [ref. 38693], Taki et al. 2021:502 [ref. 39830], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:301 [ref. 41223], Matsuura 2022:458 [ref. 40261]). Current status: Valid as Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Vietnam and the Philippines, north to Sagami Bay (Japan), south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

kunhardtii, Tetraodon Bleeker [P.] 1850:97 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 1 (no. 2); ref. 16876] Padang, western Sumatra, Indonesia. Syntypes: (5). •Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kottelat 2013:473 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

parvus, Tetraodon Joannis [L. de] 1835:no page number, Pl. 15 [Magasin de Zoologie 1835 (5 anneé); ref. 2355] Al-Qusair, Egypt, Red Sea. No types known. •Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kottelat 2013:472 [ref. 32989], Golani & Fricke 2018:181 [ref. 36273], Matsuura 2022:458 [ref. 40261]). Current status: Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

scaber, Tetraodon Eydoux [J. F. T.] & Souleyet [F. A.] 1850:214, Pl. 10 (fig. 1) [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 4501] Macao, China. Holotype: MNHN 0000-2178. Type catalog: Le Danois 1962:472-473 [ref. 21440]. •Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Kottelat 2013:472 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.

sordidus, Tetrodon Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1829:64 [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea. Paratypes: MNHN A-8360 (1, dry); SMF 276 (1), 7618 (1, dry). Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. •Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Dor 1984:284 [ref. 29757] as Tetraodon sordidus, Ebert 2001:92 [ref. 25494], Kottelat 2013:472 [ref. 32989], Matsuura 2022:458 [ref. 40261]). Current status: Synonym of Arothron immaculatus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.