SMALL-SPOTTED DOG-FISH. 



487 



CHONDROPTERYGJI. 



SQUALID JE* 



THE SMALL-SPOTTED DOG-FISH. 



MORGAY, Scotland. ROBIN HUSS, Sussex coast. 



CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 386. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 165, sp. 8. 

 JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 495, 



sp. 184. 



BLOCK, pt. iv. pi. 114. 

 Spotted Shark, \ PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. pi. 19. 



Lesser Spotted Shark, J Upper fig. male ; lower fig. female. 



,, ,, ,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 55. 



NILS. Prod. Ichth. Scand. p. 113. 



Scylllum canicula, La Grand Rou&sette, 

 ,, catuiits, M or gay, 

 ,, canicula, Spotted Dog-jish, 



Squalus canicula, 



catulus, 



canicula, 



Scijlliorhinus catulus, Le Squale Roussette, BLAINVILLE, Faun. Fran9- p. 69. 

 Scyllium canicula, BONAP. Faun. Ital. fasc. vii. 



SCYLLIUM. Generic Characters. An anal and two dorsal fins ; the first 

 dorsal fin placed behind or opposite, but never before, the abdominal fins. 

 Head short and blunt ; nostrils pierced near the mouth, and continued by a 

 fissure in the upper lip, forming valves. Teeth small, triangular, pointed, with 

 one or more lateral denticles at the base on each side. Eyelids wanting. 

 Spiracles distinct. Branchial openings five, partly over the pectoral fins. 



THE true Sharks, as previously stated, have their gills 

 fixed, their margins being attached ; the water escaping by 

 five elongated branchial apertures, the form and position of 

 which, in conjunction with modifications observed in the 



* The family of the Sharks. 



