leopardus, Tetrodon Day [F.] 1878:706, Pl. 180 (fig. 2) [The fishes of India Part 4; ref. 4887] Seas of India. Syntypes and/or Day specimens: AMS B.7722 (1, syntype), ZSI F2260 (1, lost). Type catalog: Whitehead & Talwar 1976:162 [ref. 23762], Ferraris et al. 2000:298 [ref. 25110]. Original genus should have been spelled Tetraodon. Reasons for loss of ZSI type specimens during WWII see Chopra 1947:349-350 [ref. 33077]. •Valid as Arothron leopardus (Day 1878) -- (Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 30 [ref. 38321]). •Valid as Chelonodontops leopardus (Day 1878) -- (Psomadakis et al. 2018:[4] [ref. 36003], Chakraborty et al. 2020:16629 [ref. 37723], Psomadakis et al. 2020:620 [ref. 37272]). Current status: Valid as Chelonodontops leopardus (Day 1878). Tetraodontidae. Distribution: Northern Indian Ocean: southwestern India; Bay of Bengal (India) east to Myanmar. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
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