spinosus, Diodon Linnaeus [C.] 1758:335 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India. No types known. •Valid as Cyclichthys spinosus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:111 [ref. 27192]). •Valid as Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus 1758), subspecies spinosus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Leis 2003:2012 [ref. 27121], Leis 2006:83 [ref. 28932], Fabiano et al. 2014:9 [ref. 33530], Leis in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:3077 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:56 [ref. 35565], Ribeiro et al. 2019:9 [ref. 36717], Carneiro et al. 2019:223 [ref. 37250]). •Valid as Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Andreata & Séret 1996:590 [ref. 16204], Camargo & Isaac 2001:146 [ref. 27639], Di Dario et al. 2013:264 [ref. 37503], Catelani et al. 2014:933 [ref. 37496] as Chilomycteruss pinosus, Costa et al. 2015:1061 [ref. 37495], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:192 [ref. 37485], Pinheiro et al. 2015:36 [ref. 34324], Marceniuk et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35324], Spier et al. 2018:19 [ref. 36103], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:722 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:286 [ref. 40480], Hoff et al. 2023:6 [ref. 40463]). Current status: Valid as Chilomycterus spinosus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Georgia (U.S.A.); southern Caribbean Sea south to Argentina. Habitat: marine.