Diodontidae

Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, Zootaxa 1715, pp. 1-26 : 21

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.274128
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230166
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scientific name	Diodontidae
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According to Leis (2006) the name Chilomycterus atringa (Linnaeus, 1758) cannot be assigned with certainty to any species. Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986: 1346) recorded it from Madeira. * Chilomycterus reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Spotfin burrfish

Numerous specimens in the MMF and four specimens in the BMNH belong to this species.

Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758 —Spot-fin porcupinefish

Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986:1347) recorded this species from Madeira. However, the Diodon species at the Canary Islands (Brito et al.

2005) and at the Azores ( Azevedo et al. 2004) is Diodon eydouxii Brisout de Barneville, 1846. The presence of D. hystrix at Madeira therefore appears doubtful and the identity of Madeiran Diodon needs checking.

References

Azevedo, J. M. N., Raposeiro, P. M. & Rodrigues, L. (2004) First records of Fistularia petimba and Diodon eydouxii for the Azores, with notes on the occurrence of three additional species. Journal of Fish Biology, 65, 1180 - 1184.

Leis, J. M. (2006) Nomenclature and distribution of the species of the porcupinefish family Diodontidae (Pisces, Teleostei). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 63 (1), 77 - 90.