Tetraodon pustulatus Murray, 1857

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Tetraodon pustulatus : Murray, 1857 Notice on a Tetraodon (believed to be new) from Old Calabar. | Boeseman, 1963 : 44An annotated list of fishes from the Niger Delta..
Tetraodon leiogaster : Smith, 1865 : 268 (junior synonym)Notice of the "Etuet", a species of Tetraodon recently received from the Rev. Alexander Robb, Old Calabar..
Tetrodon pustulatus : Günther, 1870 : 291 (junior synonym)Catalogue of the fishes of the British Museum, vol. 8 : Physostomi, Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, Ganoidei, Chondropterygii, Cyclostomata, Leptocardii. | Boulenger, 1905 c : 60 (junior synonym)A list of freshwater fishes of Africa. | Boulenger, 1916 a : 146, fig. 99 (junior synonym)Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Africa in the British Museum (Natural History). | Pellegrin, 1922 i : 637 (junior synonym)Les poissons des eaux douces de l'Afrique occidentale. | Pellegrin, 1923 b : 347 (junior synonym)Les poissons des eaux douces de l'Afrique occidentale (du Sénégal au Niger). | Giltay, 1928 : 26 (junior synonym)Note sur les Tetrodon du Congo belge. | David & Poll, 1937 : 247 (junior synonym)Contribution à la faune ichthyologique du Congo belge : collections du Dr. H. Schouteden (1924-1926) et d'autres récolteurs. | Wellman, 1948 : 43, 56 (junior synonym)Preliminary survey of the freshwater fisheries of Nigeria. | Boeseman, 1963 : 44 (junior synonym)An annotated list of fishes from the Niger Delta..
Tetrodon guttifer : Rochebrune (de), 1883 : 155 (junior synonym)Faune de la Sénégambie..
Tetraodon guttifer : Daget & Iltis, 1965 : 56, fig. 30 (junior synonym)Poissons de Côte d'Ivoire (eaux douces et saumâtres)..

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Current distribution known : common in the Cross River within 20 km downstream of Mamfé. Other known specimens of this species, all in the BMNH have only "West Africa" or "Old Calabar" for locality. The record of a specimen from Gabon by Boulenger, 1916 a: 147, is based on misidentified material of T. guttifer. Other records are doubtful .
Habitat / home range : young and adult are common in the mainstream of the Cross River within 20 km downstream of Mamfé .
Size : 360 mm TL (dried skin observed by the author (T.R. Roberts) at Mamfe in March 1980) .
Types :
- Tetraodon leiogaster Smith, 1865: 268. Type locality: "Old Calabar". No information on the type.
- Tetraodon pustulatus Murray, 1857: 252. Type locality: "Old calabar" presumably lower Cross River. Syntypes BMNH n° 1866.6.14: 5 and 6.