FAMILY Diodontidae Bonaparte, 1838 – porcupinefishes GENUS Allomycterus McCulloch, 1921 [=Allomycterus McCulloch [A. R.] 1921:141] Notes: [Records of the Australian Museum v. 13 (no. 4); ref. 2945] Masc. Diodon jaculiferus of McCulloch (non Cuvier) Type by original designation (also monotypic). Based on a misidentified type species; McCulloch's D. jaculiferus (not of Cuvier 1818) = Allomycterus pilatus Whitley 1931. •Synonym of Dicotylichthys Kaup 1855, but a valid subgenus Allomycterus -- (Fraser-Brunner 1943:17 [ref. 1495]). •Valid as Allomycterus McCulloch 1921 -- (Leis 1984:448 [ref. 13659], Gomon et al. 1994:913 [ref. 22532], Leis 2006:86 [ref. 28932], Bray et al. 2006:1931 [ref. 29091], Gomon 2008:857 [ref. 30616], Leis 2015:1742 [ref. 34323]). Current status: Valid as Allomycterus McCulloch 1921. Diodontidae. Species Allomycterus pilatus Whitley, 1931 [=Allomycterus pilatus Whitley [G. P.] 1931:125, Allomycterus whitleyi Phillipps [W. J.] 1932:234, Fig. 5] Notes: [Records of the Australian Museum v. 18 (no. 3); ref. 4673] Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Current status: Valid as Allomycterus pilatus Whitley 1931. Diodontidae. Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Tasman Sea, Australia and New Zealand. Habitat: marine. (whitleyi) [The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology v. 13 (no. 4); ref. 16393] New Zealand. Current status: Synonym of Allomycterus pilatus Whitley 1931. Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. GENUS Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville, 1846 [=Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville [C. N. F.] (ex Bibron) 1846:140, Atinga Le Danois [Y.] 1954:2356, Chilomyctere Bibron [G.] in Duméril 1855:278, Cyanichthys Kaup [J. J.] 1855:231] Notes: [Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne (Paris) 1846; ref. 296] Masc. Diodon reticulatus of Brisout de Barneville 1846 (= Diodon reticulatus Linnaeus 1758). Type by monotypy. •Valid as Chilomycterus Brisout de Barnville 1846 -- (Tortonese 1973:648 [ref. 7192], Tyler 1980:367 [ref. 4477], Arai 1983:207 [ref. 14249], Matsuura in Masuda et al. 1984:366 [ref. 6441], Tortonese in Whitehead et al. 1986:1346 [ref. 13677], Leis 1986:904 [ref. 5686], Lindberg et al. 1997:175 [ref. 23547], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:518 [ref. 24550], Leis 2001:3959 [ref. 26318], Leis 2003:2008 [ref. 27121], Leis 2006:78 [ref. 28932], Bray et al. 2006:1931 [ref. 29091], Leis 2015:1743 [ref. 34323]). Current status: Valid as Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville 1846. Diodontidae. (Atinga) [Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences v. 238 (no. 24); ref. 6451] Fem. Diodon atringa Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy; one species but four subspecies; type is the nominate subspecies. Le Danois apparently misspelled Linnaeus' species as atinga. See also Leis & Bauchot 1984:85 [ref. 12539]. Also Appendix A in Eschmeyer 1990 [ref. 20647]. •In the synonymy of a temporary category "Atlantic Chilomycterus" -- (Leis 2006:82-83 [ref. 28932]). Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville 1846. Diodontidae. (Chilomyctere) [Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Sér. 2) v. 7; ref. 297] Masc. Diodon reticulatus Linnaeus 1758. Type by monotypy. Originally as Chilomyctère. Regarded by Kottelat 2001:611 [ref. 25859] as available and predating Chilomcterus as Latinized by Troschel and and by Holland. •Synonym of Chilomycterus Brisout de Barnville 1846. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville 1846. Diodontidae. (Cyanichthys) [Archiv für Naturgeschichte v. 21 (no. 1); ref. 2571] Masc. Cyanichthys coeruleus of Kaup (not of Quoy & Gaimard) 1855. Type by monotypy. Evidently based on a misidentified type species, not Diodon coeruleus Quoy & Gaimard according to Jordan 1919:265 [ref. 2410]. •Synonym of Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville 1846 -- (Leis 2006:78 [ref. 28932]). Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus Brisout de Barneville 1846. Diodontidae. Species Chilomycterus antennatus (Cuvier, 1816) [=Diodon antennatus Cuvier [G.] 1816:185, Pl. 9 (fig. 1), Chilomycterus briareos Metzelaar [J.] 1919:173, Fig. 55, Lyosphaera digitalis Breder [C. M., Jr.] 1927:81, Fig. 34] Notes: [Le Règne Animal v. 2; ref. 993] Unknown locality. Current status: Valid as Chilomycterus antennatus (Cuvier 1816). Diodontidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic (possibly eastern Atlantic). Habitat: marine. (briareos) [Report on the fishes; ref. 2982] St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus antennatus (Cuvier 1816). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (digitalis) [Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection Yale University v. 1 (art. 1); ref. 635] West Indies or western North Atlantic (no other data). Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus antennatus (Cuvier 1816). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. Species Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter, 1897 [=Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan [D. S.] & Rutter [C. L.] 1897:131, Diodon geometricus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:513, Pl. 96, Chilomycterus orbitosus Poey [F.] 1875:69] Notes: [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 49; ref. 10644] Kingston, Jamaica. Current status: Valid as Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter 1897. Diodontidae. Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine. (geometricus) [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] America [coast of Brazil]. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter 1897. Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (orbitosus) [Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York v. 11 (nos 3-4) (art. 6); ref. 18564] Cuba. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus antillarum Jordan & Rutter 1897. Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. Species Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [=Diodon reticulatus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:334, Chilomycterus affinis Günther [A.] 1870:314, Diodon atringa Linnaeus [C.] 1758:334, Chilomycterus californiensis Eigenmann [C. H.] 1891:1133, Chilomycterus lissogenys Günther [A.] 1910:476, Pl. 179, Euchilomycterus quadradicatus Waite [E. R.] 1900:208, Diodon tigrinus Cuvier [G.] 1818:127, Pl. 6 (Diodons Pl. 1)] Notes: [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India. Current status: Valid as Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in warm temperate seas. Habitat: marine. (affinis) [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 8; ref. 1995] Unknown locality. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (atringa) [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India [in error]. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Distribution: Atlantic. Habitat: marine. (californiensis) [American Naturalist v. 25 (no. 300); ref. 18744] San Pedro, southern California, U.S.A. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (galapagosensis) [Senckenbergiana Biologica v. 39 (nos 1/2); ref. 12080] San Cristóbal Island [Chatham Island], Wreck-Bay, Galápagos Islands. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (lissogenys) [Journal des Museum Godeffroy v. 6 (no. 17); ref. 14460] Hawaiian Islands. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (quadradicatus) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 3 (no. 7); ref. 4558] Lord Howe Island. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (tigrinus) [Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris v. 4; ref. 18059] Molucca Islands, Indonesia. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus 1758). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. Species Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) [=Diodon schoepfii Walbaum [J. J.] 1792:601, Holocanthus areolatus Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:27, Diodon fuliginosus DeKay [J. E.] 1842:324, Pl. 55 (fig. 181), Diodon geometricus var. lineatus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:513, Diodon maculatostriatus Mitchill [S. L.] 1815:470, Pl. 6 (fig. 3), Diodon meulenii Walbaum [J. J.] 1792:602, Diodon nigrolineatus Ayres [W. O.] 1842:68, Chilomycterus pentodon Atkinson [G. F.] in Bryant 1888:18, Diodon rivulatus Cuvier [G.] 1818:129, Pl. 6 (Diodons Pl. 1), Diodon verrucosus DeKay [J. E.] (ex Mitchill) 1842:325, Pl. 55 (fig. 1)] Notes: [Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium Part 3; ref. 4572] No locality stated [New York, U.S.A.] . Current status: Valid as Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum 1792). Diodontidae. Distribution: Western North Atlantic. Habitat: marine. (areolatus) [Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow; ref. 1911] Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum 1792). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (fuliginosus) [Zoology of New-York; ref. 1098] New York harbor, New York, U.S.A. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum 1792). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (lineatus) [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] New York, U.S.A. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum 1792). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (maculatostriatus) [Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814); ref. 13292] New York, U.S.A. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum 1792). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (meulenii) [Petri Artedi sueci genera piscium Part 3; ref. 4572] No locality stated. Current status: Synonym of Chilomycterus schoepfii (Walbaum 1792). Diodontidae. Habitat: marine. (nigrolineatus) [Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History v.