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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



MEASUREMENTS 



Length of upper lobe 



Greatest width of upper lobe 



Distance of lower lobe from <anal base. . 

 Length of anterior margin of lower lobe. 

 Length of longest margin of lower lobe. 



Pectoral 



Distance from snout 



Greatest length 



Width of base 



Greatest width , 



Ventral 



Distance from snout 



Greatest length 



Length of posterior margin (last ray). . . 



iWidth of base 



Greatest width . 



Millimeter-? 



98 

 117 



91 

 228 

 345 



590 

 330 

 169 

 240 



1655 

 215 

 108 

 170 

 999 



Hundredth* 

 of length 



20 

 11.2 

 5.7 



8 



56 

 7.3 



5.7 

 7.5 



Only two specimens of this shark have been recorded the 

 type described by C'apello from the coast of Portugal, and an 

 example about 9 feet, 8 inches long which came ashore in ex- 

 cellent condition at the Aniagansett life-saving station on Long 

 Island, Feb. 8, 1883. The latter specimen was forwarded to the 

 U. S. National Museum, Washington D. f 1 . 



A figure of the species is published in Oceanic Ichthyology, pi. o. 

 fig. 17. 



Family GALEIDAE 



Requiem Sharks 

 Genus MUSTEL.TTS Cnvier 



Body slender, elongate; mouth small, crescent-shaped, with 

 well developed labial folds at the angles, snout rather long and 

 depressed; teeth in both jaws very blunt, small, rhombic, many- 

 rowed, arranged like pavement; spiracles small, just behind the 

 eyes; eye large, oblong; pectorals large; ventrals well de- 

 veloped; first dorsal large, not far behind pectorals, somewhat 

 larger than second dorsal; anal opposite to and smaller than 

 second dorsal; basal lobe of caudal little developed, the tail 

 nearly straight; embryo without placeutal attachment to the 

 uterus. 



