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not give the sex, but his figure (our Figure 5, plate II, herein) made from a photograph 

 shows it to have been a female as were the two other large fish already noted. This i860' 

 mm. fish is preserved in the oceanographic museum of Donostia (the Basque name for 

 San Sebastian). 



Finally, we are indebted to the splendid volume of Lo^ano Rey (1928) for an ex' 

 cellent r^sum^ of the data on the occurrence of Chlamydoselachus in Iberian and surround' 

 ing waters, and also for a number of references to the literature cited in this subsection. 

 But for his book these references would have remained unknown to us. We are also in his 

 debt for the figure of Chlamydoselachus reproduced herein as Text-figure 6. Whether this 

 is an original drawing of a Spanish fish, or whether it is a reproduction of Giinther's draw- 

 ing, we cannot say. 



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Text-figure 6 

 A lateral view of Chlamydoselachus anguineus. This is possibly drawn from Giinther's 

 Lithographed figure (our Figure 1, plate I). 

 After Lozano Rey, 1928. 



IN MOROCCAN WATERS 



From the coasts of Morocco, two specimens of Chlamydoselachus are on record. 

 Osorio (1909, p. 48) first made known the capture of a specimen 1600 mm. (63 in.) long. 

 We have been unable to locate in any American library Osorio's article, the reference to 

 which we quote from Loz,ano Rey (1928, p. 300). Since the title says ''deep-sea fishes 

 taken near to the Portuguese coast," we infer that the fish must have been captured in 

 the Moroccan waters nearest to Portugal, i.e., in the Atlantic. 



In 1913, Seabra recorded a 1300-mm. (51.2-in.) specimen of Chlamydoselachus taken 

 by a commercial fishing boat on the coast of Morocco. Unfortunately neither the sex of 

 the fish, the depth at which it was taken, nor the particular locality is indicated. How- 

 ever, since his title reads "Fishes from the Coasts of Morocco and Portugal," it is probable 

 that this specimen also came from some point on the Atlantic coast of Morocco near to 

 Portugal. Lozano Rey specifically says that both fish came from the coasts of Morocco. 



SUMMARY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



Up to the present, Chlamydoselachus has been taken in but two general regions — in 

 Japanese waters, and in those around western Europe. The smaller number of captures, 

 9 in all, is from the latter region: from Norway, one specimen; from the Bay of Biscay, 

 one; around the Iberian peninsula, four; in Moroccan waters, two; at Madeira, one. 

 From Japan has come an apparent total of 77 specimens as recorded in our Tables I and II 

 and listed in Doctor Dean's notebooks, plus the specimen recently brought back by Doctor 



