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Family SCYLLIORHINIDJE. 



3. Scylliorhinus canicula (L). 



Apost. 5 {Seyllium canicula), f (txuXc, f ay.ok6(}iapo, dog, dog-fish, 

 A. G. a/.vXaS, whelp, pup, dog. M. G. (Txu).t(o-j), dog. Aristotle, 

 axuXiov, name of a fish, 565a 16-26 ; 566a 19. 



According to Aristotle the ova of the a/.uUw are grown fast 

 between the branches of the oviduct about the backbone ; as these 

 ova increase in size they change their position and move around 

 into one or the other branch of the oviduct, which is forked and 

 grown fast to the u-o^wp.a (diaphragm, peritoneum) just as in other 

 similar fishes. The oviduct of both this and the other Galeodes 

 has at a little distance from the u-o^atim a kind of white breasts 

 (oviducal glands) which are not present when they are not preg- 

 nant. The shells of their eggs are shaped like the tongues (reeds) 

 of pipes (aukoi), and there are attached to them hair-like ducts. 

 The other yalzoi breed twice a year, but the av.olw only once. 



4. Catulus stellaris (L). 



Apost. 5, 6 (Scyllium catulus), f y^J-'^f^'S = xd-o?, cat. Byzantine 

 and Roman times, xdrza, xdrzo^; Latin, crtfto, Martial 13,69. 

 I find no ancient application of this name to a fish. 



Family ALOPIIDJE. 



5. Alopias vulpes (Gmelin). 

 Apost. 6, f axijKu(l'o.po. 



Family CARCHARIIDJE, 



6. Carcharias ferox (Risso). 

 Apost. 6. (^Odontaspis ferox.) 



Family LAMNID^. 



7. Lamna cornubica (Gmelin). 

 Apost. 6, t <Txu/.6(^'apt). 



8. Isurus oxyrhynchus (Rafinesque). 



Apost. 6 ( Oxyrhina spallanzani), f (T-/.v).6(l'apo. 



9. Carcharodon carcharias (L). 



Apost. 6 (Carc/iaroc?o?i lamia), ^ xapyapia<;,-\ Xdpta. See Athen, 

 vii, 76. Athenaeus quotes several passages from ancient authors 

 where the name xapyapia^ occurs, and among them the following 

 from Nicandrus the Colophonian in his " Glosses : " " The xapyapiu's 

 is called also kdp'.a and axbllaP 

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