Species that contain: Sphoeroides and annulatus and (Jenyns) [ 2 ] records

annulatus, Tetrodon Jenyns [L.] 1842:153 [The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle; ref. 2344] San Cristóbal Island [Chatham Island], Galápagos Islands. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1917.7.14.80. Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. •Valid as Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:55 [ref. 39147] as Spheroides annulatus, Ovchynnyk 1967:44 [ref. 37559], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:298 [ref. 9277], Allen & Robertson 1994:300 [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 1997:651 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:146 [ref. 24555], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:513 [ref. 24550], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:126 [ref. 25206], Thomson et al. 2000:277 [ref. 25640], Ebert 2001:31 [ref. 25494], Nelson et al. 2004:185 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:180 [ref. 37547], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:195 [ref. 30957], Angulo et al. 2013:1010 [ref. 33194], 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], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:151 [ref. 34871], Kells et al. 2016:340 [ref. 35888], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:93 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:309 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:225 [ref. 39279], Grove et al. 2022:22 [ref. 41326], Angulo et al. 2023:82 [ref. 40676], Barrientos et al. 2023:275 [ref. 41235], Hunt et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40687], Page et al. 2023:168 [ref. 40505], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:430 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:12 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Peru, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

melanostictus, Liosaccus Fowler [H. W.] 1944:340, 352, Fig. 267 [Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia No. 6; ref. 1448] James Bay, James Island, Galápagos Islands. Holotype: ANSP 70136. Paratypes: ANSP 70137 (1), 70260 (1, missing). Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:161 [ref. 13621]. •Synonym of Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842) -- (Ebert 2001:92 [ref. 25494]). Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides annulatus (Jenyns 1842). Tetraodontidae. Habitat: brackish, marine.