Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 15, 1819
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 100
Additional Source Text:
"In spirits". The donor was "of Boston."
Notes:
The toadfish of St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic is most probably the bottlefish, or blunthead puffer (Sphoeroides pachygaster), pictured here, which is not a diodon, or porcupine fish. (Alasdair James Edwards, Fish and Fisheries of Saint Helena Island (1990), pp. 135-136; plate 24.3.
See also Richard Thomas Lowe, A History of the Fishes of Madeira (1843), 1:87-92.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Bottlefish
Current Scientific Name
Sphoeroides pachygaster
