Promecocephale Bibron, 1855

Kottelat, Maurice, 2001, Nomenclatural status of names of tetraodontiform fishes based on Bibron’s unpublished work, Zoosystema 23 (3), pp. 605-618 : 612-613

Promecocephale Bibron in Duméril, 1855: 279

Spelled Promécocéphale . Diagnosis provided, thus an available name. Six included species: Tetraodon argentatus (misspelling for T. argenteus Lacépède, 1804: 211 ), T. lunaris Bloch in Schneider, 1801, T. spadiceus Richardson, 1845 , T. laevigatus Linnaeus, 1766 , T. lagocephalus sensu Bloch, 1785 (non Linnaeus, 1758), T. inermis Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 . Type species: Jordan & Snyder (1901: 232) listed “ argentatus ” as type species, without indicating authorship or bibliographic reference. P. 234, in the synonymy of Spheroides sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) , they list “ Tretrodon [sic] argenteus Lacépède , […] 1804” and “ Tetrodon argentatus Blyth , […] 185[3]”. As T. argenteus was originally included by Duméril (misspelled as T. argentatus ), when listing the type species of Promecocephale as T. argentatus , Jordan & Snyder are deemed to have cited T. argenteus Lacépède, 1804 [Code, art. 67.6]. Gender: masculine.

Promecocephalus [as spelled by Troschel 1856: 88] and Promecocephalus [as spelled by Hollard 1857: 319] are incorrect subsequent spellings.