inermis, Tetraodon Temminck [C. J.] & Schlegel [H.] 1850:278, Pl. 122 (fig. 2) [Fauna Japonica Last part (15); ref. 4375] Bay of Simabara, Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH D2265 (dry). Type catalog: Boeseman 1947:199 [ref. 12876]. Spelled inervis by Michajlova 1989:26 [ref. 20062]. •Valid as Lagocephalus inermis (Temminck & Schlegel 1850) -- (Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:364 [ref. 6441], Smith & Heemstra 1986:901 [ref. 5714], Allen & Swainston 1988:156 [ref. 25477], Cheng & Zhou 1997:476 [ref. 26385] dated 1847, Lindberg et al. 1997:149 [ref. 23547], Allen 1997:248 [ref. 23977], Johnson 1999:755 [ref. 25471], Matsuura in Randall & Lim 2000:648 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1430 [ref. 25182], Hutchins 2001:48 [ref. 25847], Matsuura 2001:3957 [ref. 26317] dated 1844, Nakabo 2002:1430 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:453, 697 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S124 [ref. 27377], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:50 [ref. 27712] with author as Schlegel, Hoese et al. 2006:1921 [ref. 29099], Verruraj et al. 2011:3 [ref. 31496], Wu et al. 2011:622 [ref. 32150], Larson et al. 2013:237 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:337 [ref. 34104], Matsuura & Satoh 2016:[6] [ref. 34732], Fricke et al. 2018:388 [ref. 35805], Eagderi et al. 2019:138 [ref. 37020], Kim et al. 2020:203 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:622 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:131 [ref. 37637], Mary et al. 2021:398 [ref. 38693], Matsuura 2022:469 [ref. 40261]). Current status: Valid as Lagocephalus inermis (Temminck & Schlegel 1850). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to Korea and central Japan, south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.