LARGE-SPOTTED DOG-FISH. 



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CHONDROPTERYGII. 



SQUALIDJE. 



THE LARGE-SPOTTED DOG-FISH. 

 BOUNCE, Scotland and Devonshire. 



ROCK DOG-FISH. 



Scyllium catulus, La Petite Roussette, CUVIEU, Regne An. t. ii. p. 386. 

 ,, stellaris, Le Rockier, ,, ,, ,, ,, 



,, stellare, Bounce, FI.EM. Brit. An. p. 165, sp. 7. 



,, stellaris, Rock Dog-fish, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 496, sp. 185. 



Squalus catulus et stellaris, LINN/EUS. 



Scylliorhinus stellaris, Le Squale Rockier, BLAINVILLE, Faun. Franf. p. 71. 



Scylliwn stellare, BONAP. Faun. Ital. fasc. vii. 



THIS Shark is at once distinguished from the species last 

 described by its larger but less numerous spots, and by the 

 ventral fins, which are truncated or nearly square at the end. 

 Like the Small-spotted Dog-fish, its haunts are near the 

 bottom, and its food similar ; but it also frequents rocky 

 ground, and has accordingly been distinguished on the Con- 

 tinent by the term Rockier, as shown in the list of syno- 

 nymes. 



Mr. Jenyns, in his valuable Manual of British Vertebrate 

 Animals, has so clearly pointed out the specific distinctions 

 of this fish, from examples obtained at Weymouth, that, 



