Zoohujy.-] NATURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIA. [Fishes. 



Measurements— continued. Feet, inches. 



Width of pectoral ... ... ... ... ... 2 3 



Length from anterior base of pectoral to anterior base of 



ventral ,.. ... ... ... ... 9 3 



„ of anterior edge of ventral ... ... ... 4 9 



„ of terminal edge of ventral ... ... ... 3 



„ of base of ventral ... ... ... ... 1 8 



„ of claspers of male ... ... ... ... 3 9 



„ from posterior edge of base of ventral to anterior edge 



of anal ... ... ... ... ... 4 8 



„ of anterior edge of anal ... ... ... ... 9 



„ of terminal edge of anal ... ... ... ... 1 2 



„ of posterior edge of anal ... ... ... 7 



Diameter of orbit ... ... ... ... ••• 3 



Distance of eyes apart ... ... ... ... ... 1 3 



Length from posterior edge of orbit to spiracle ... ... 1 6 



„ „ angle of month to spiracle ... ... 1 2 



Depth of snout at vertical of eye, upper jaw ... ... 9 



„ „ „ „ lower jaw ... ... 8 



Lengtli from tip of lower jaw to anterior edge of pectoral ... 5 6 



., of longitudinal space occupied by the five gill-slits ... 2 



„ of anterior edge of first dorsal ... ... ... 5 



„ of hinder edge of first dorsal ... ... ... 1 5 



„ of top edge of first dorsal ... ... ... 5 



,, of base of first dorsal ... ... ... ... 3 4 



„ from posterior edge of base of first dorsal to anterior 



edge of second dorsal ... ... ... ... 7 3 



,, of anterior edge of second dorsal ... ... ... 1 4 



„ of upper edge of second dorsal ... ... ... 1 5 



„ of posterior edge of second dorsal ... ... ... 1 3 



„ of base of second dorsal ... ... ... ... 1 



„ from posterior edge of second dorsal to tip of upper 



lobe of caudal ... ... ... ... 9 6 



„ from tip to tip of caudal fin ... ... ... 7 



„ from tip of upper caudal lobe to pit at base ... 5 7 



„ from tip of lower caudal lobe to pit at base ... 4 



„ from middle of caudal fin to posterior end of keel ... 2 3 



„ of teeth towards middle of mouth, where largest ... 0| 

 Number of teeth in a space of one inch, about five. 



Reference. — =Squalus maximas, Gunner, Beschreibung des Brugden in 

 Sclirif'ten der Drontheimschen Gesellsch. Tlieil. 3, p. 28 (1765)= Id. Linn. Syst. 

 Nat., ed. 12, vol. I., p. 400 (1798) = Cetorhinus Gunneri, + C. Homianus, + C. 

 Shavianus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil., 121 (1810) = Selache maxima, Goyeau, 

 Hamburg Magazin, vol. 24, p. 531, Cuv. Reg. An., vol. 2, p. 391 (1829). 



As De Blainville's generic name, Cetorhinus, has a clear priority 

 over Goyeau and Cuvier's Selache, and as the approximation to the 

 characters of Whales is curiously greater in this than in any other 

 fish, I have followed Dr. Gray in adopting it for the present Shark. 

 The extraordinary circumstance of the individual I have here 

 figured and described having come so far south gives special 

 interest to this specimen, which was caught in November, 1883, at 

 Portland, on the western coa*st of Victoria. It, as often happens 

 in the northern hemisphere, to which, until this occurrence, it was 



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