Species that contain: Canthigaster and rostrata [ 5 ] records

asterias, Spheroides Blosser [C. B.] 1909:300, Pl. 12 (fig. 2) [Annals of the Carnegie Museum v. 6 (no. 1) (art. 5); ref. 14363] St. Croix Island, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Holotype: FMNH 53050 [ex CM 1475]. Paratypes: CAS 44169 [ex IU 11924] (2). Type catalog: Henn 1928:98 [ref. 12305], Ibarra & Stewart 1987:80 [ref. 12367]. •Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786) -- (Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:88 [ref. 33341]). Current status: Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786). Tetraodontidae.

capistratus, Tetrodon Lowe [R. T.] 1839:90 [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839 (pt 7); ref. 2829] Off Madeira. Syntypes: (2) whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786) -- (Tortonese 1973:647 [ref. 7192], Shipp 1990:1069 [ref. 19531]). •Valid as Canthigaster capistrata (Lowe 1839) -- (Moura & Castro 2002:39 [ref. 25970], Wirtz et al. 2013:136 [ref. 32972], Carneiro et al. 2019:224 [ref. 37250], Baptista et al. 2021:[7] [ref. 38204]). Current status: Valid as Canthigaster capistrata (Lowe 1839). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands; central Angola. Habitat: marine.

caudacinctus, Prilonotus Richardson [J.] 1854:162, Pl. 31 (figs. 1-3) [The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Herald; ref. 3746] Unknown locality. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Appeared as Prilonotus vel Anchisomus caudacinctus. •Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786) -- (W. Smith-Vaniz, pers. comm. Dec. 2000). Current status: Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: marine.

ornatus, Tetrodon Poey [F.] 1867:244 [Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 14078] Cuba. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. •Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786) -- (Moura & Castro 2002:37 [ref. 25970]). Current status: Synonym of Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: marine.

rostratus, Tetrodon Bloch [M. E.] 1786:8, Pl. 146 (fig. 2) [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 2; ref. 465] Twin Cays, Belize. Neotype: USNM 276209. On p. 7 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 5 [ref. 21381]. Original type locality apparently was western Atlantic. Neotype designated by Moura & Castro 2002:38 [ref. 25970]. Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. •Valid as Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786) -- (Tortonese 1973:647 [ref. 7192], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1342 [ref. 13677], Robins & Ray 1986:305 [ref. 23100], Shipp 1990:1069 [ref. 19531], Boschung 1992:182 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:448 [ref. 23827], Azevedo & Heemstra 1995:7 [ref. 22269], Cervigón 1996:115 [ref. 24489], Santos et al. 1997:114 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:122 [ref. 24952], Aguilera 1998:54 [ref. 24221] as rostratum, Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:171 [ref. 27754], Galeote 2001:313 [ref. 26422], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:355 [ref. 25013], Moura & Castro 2002:37 [ref. 25970], Collette et al. 2003:127 [ref. 26784], Shipp 2003:1992 [ref. 27120], Smith et al. 2003:71 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:185 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:922 [ref. 28815], Bañón & Santás 2011:1574 [ref. 31248], Page et al. 2013:191 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:88 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:148 [ref. 34961], Carneiro et al. 2019:224 [ref. 37250], Robertson et al. 2020:163 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:78 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:73 [ref. 39585], Hoff et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Canthigaster rostrata (Bloch 1786). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Trinidad and Tobago, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2014): Least concern. Habitat: marine.