216 DR. JOHNSTON ON THE LONG-TAILED SHARK. 



tlie snout to the insertion of the dorsal fin two feet seven 

 inches ; length of dorsal fin one foot ; length of the pectoral 

 fins one foot eight inches; breadth at their base ten inches ; 

 breadth of the tail at its origin seven inches ; length of its 

 large lobe eight and a half inches. 



SYNONYMA. 



'A>o,rrr,l. yecXtcc i ctXwfrn^, AHst Hist. Anim. c. 6 and 9. — Alopecias, Plin. 

 Hist. Nat. lib. 32, c. 53. — Vulpes marinee, Ibid. lib. ix. c. 77.— Sea Foxes 

 Holland's Pliny i. p. 262, c. 43. — Cercus, J. Caii Opusc. p. 110. — Renard 

 Hondd. Poiss. i. p. 303, fig.— The Thresher, Borl. Cornw, p. 265.— Lonq- 

 TAiLED Shark, Penn. Br. Zool. iii. 145, pi. 17- — Squaius vulpes, Turt. 

 Gmel. i. 918. Turt. Brit. Faun. 112. Stew. Elem. i. 317. Blainv. Faun. 

 Fran9. Poiss. 95, pi. 24, fig. 1 . Jenyn's Man. 498. 



La Faux ou Renard, Guv. Reg. Anim. ii. 388.* 



Carchartas VULPES, (Cuv.) i^^ew. Phil. Zool. ii. 377. Brit. Anim. 167. Eisso 

 I'Enrop. merid. iii. 120. Stark Elem. i. 385. Griffith's Cuv. Pise. 599 and 

 635. W. Thompson in Brit. Assoc, rep. an. 1840, p. 398. — Thrasher, Couch 

 Corn. Faun, i, 50. — The Fox Shark, Yarr. Br. Fish. ii. 522. Partington's 

 Br. Cycl. Nat. Hist. iii. 654, fig. 



For the following additions to the Synonyma, I am indebted 

 to my friend Dr. W. Baird, of the British Museum : — 



Alopias vulpes, Muller and Henle Systematische Bcschreibung de Plagios- 

 toma, p. 74. 



Vulpes, Rondeletius De piscibus marinis, p. 387. 



VuLPECULA, Salvianus Aquatil. Animal. Hist. p. 134, fig. 42. WiUoughhy 

 Ichthyographia, B. 6. Buysch Theatrum Univers. Omu'. Animal, iii. p. 3. 



Vulpecula marina, Aldrova7idus De piscibus, p. 396-397. Jonstonv^ 

 Dcpiscibus et Cetis, p. 15, t. 7, f. 3. 



Vulpes marina, Gesner Hist. Animal. De Aquatilibus, p. 1249. Blasius, 

 A natome Animal, t. 51, f. 10, 11. 



Galeus CAUDA LONGA, KleiH Hist. Nat. Promovcrd. Mess. Pise. iii. 10. 



IIe>'akd MARIN, Perrault Mem. pour scrv. a I'Hiat. Nat. I. t. 15-16. Brous- 

 fiotiet Mem. sur les diflfer. especes de chiens de mer, in Hist, de I'Acad. 

 Royale des Sciences, 1780, p. 641. 



Rbnaiid de mer, Duhamel Traits gen. des Peches, et Hist, des Poiss. xxi. f. 1, 2. 



Zorra pi MAR, Bni de Jtamon Collecion de laminas que represeutan los ani- 

 mates y mongtruoB del Real gabinetede Historial Natural de Madi-id, 1787, 

 ii. 49. 



Squalus CAUDA LONGioRE QUAM ii'SAM CORPUS, Avtedi GcH. Pisc. 508. Do. Sy- 

 nonym, nom. pi.sc. p. 96. 



Squalk renard, Lacepede Hist. Nat. des Poissons, i. 267. 



Squalus VULPES, Bloch Syst. Ichthyolog. edit. Schneider, p. 127. 



Ai/>PiA8 MACROURus, Rojincsque Carratcridi alcuni nuovi gencri e nueve specie 

 di animal, p. 12. 



Alopis VULPES, Buonaparte (Car. I^in.) Icouografia della fauna Italiana. 



