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Issue: Vol. 5519 No. 4: 10 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5519.4.5
Page range: 561-570
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Chelonodontops bengalensis Habib et al. 2018, a junior synonym of Tetrodon patoca Hamilton 1822, with a type species designation for Chelonodon Müller 1841

Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden; Museum für Tierkunde; Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159; D-01109 Dresden; Germany
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377; Singapore
Naturhistorisches Museum Bern; Bernastrasse 15; 3005 Bern; Switzerland; Aquatic Ecology and Evolution; Institute of Ecology and Evolution; University of Bern; Baltzerstrasse 6; 3012 Bern; Switzerland
Pisces pufferfishes brackish water Sundarbans Francis Hamilton

Abstract

A comparison of the recent description of Chelonodontops bengalensis Habib, Neogi, Og, Lee & Kim 2018 with that of Tetrodon patoca Hamilton 1822 reveals that the former is a junior synonym of the latter. Chelonodon patoca appears to be restricted in its distribution to coastal brackish waters at the mouth of the Ganges/Brahmaputra/Meghna system in India and Bangladesh and further south to at least the mouth of the Mahanadi. The valid name for the widespread Indo-Pacific species previously confused with C. patoca is C. kappa Hamilton 1822. We show that Bleeker (1850), not Rüppell (1852), was the first author to include pufferfish species in the genus Chelonodon Müller 1841, and as first revisers we choose Tetrodon kappa Hamilton 1822 as the type species of Chelonodon.

 

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