| Valid name | Sphoeroides |
| Synonym | Sphaeroides, Spheroides: auctorum. |
| Synonym | Sphoeroides Lacepède, 1798 |
| Synonym | Gender: M; Allgem. Liter. Zeit. Berlin, (287): 675 |
| Synonym | Type: Tetrodon spengleri Bloch [cf. Jordan, 1923: 240, note 515]. |
| Synonym | Liosaccus Günther, 1870, Cat. Fish., 8: 272, 287 (type: Liosaccus cutaneus Gunth., by monotypy). |