CHONDROPTERYGII. SQUALIDJE. 



TAB. XII. 



ZYG^.NA MALLEUS, Val. 



Cormida. 



The Common Hammer-fish, or Hammer-shark. 



Char. Gen. 



Caput transverse dilatatum ; oculis ad latera extrema utrinque. Dentes in utraque maxilla con- 

 formes, laniarii, triangulares, semilati, recurvi. Pinnae dorsales duse, remotas : secunda anali fere 

 opposita. Spiracula nulla. Fissur;e branchiales quinque ; posterioribus supra basin pinnarum pec- 

 toralium. Oculi menibrana nictitantc distincta. 



OJs.— Squali majores, ferociores, regioniun calidiorum incolae, subtropici ; aspectu capitis deformi, 



Char. Spec. 



Z. capite malleiformi, triple quadniplove latiore quam longo, aiitice subsinuato, convexiusculo : 

 naribus oculis contiguis. 



Z. malkus " Val. Mem. Mus. ix. 222." Cuv. R. An. ii. 393.— Risso, iii. 125.— Yarr. Brit. Fish, 

 ii. 406 (vignette), and Suppl. ii. 61. 



Sph,yr7ia Zyyana (Raf.), Mull, und Henl, Flag. p. 51, 



Squaliis Zygmta, Linn. i. 399. 



Squalus capite latissimo transverse mallei instar, Art. Syn. 96, Gen. 67. 



Zygcena, Rondel. 389.— Salv. 129, t. 40.— Will. 55, t. B 1 (copied from Salviani), 



Longit. ■=■ 2 — 10 v. 12 pedes. 



Tempus, aestate, autumno, hieme ; sed per totum fere annum. , 



Locus, in profundioribus, a littore longule : vulg. 



The hideous aspect of this Shark well justifies the character and place 

 assigned it by Schiller, when, in his exquisite ballad of " the Diver," he 

 is peopling his Charybdis with the " monsters of the hoary deep." 



©d^wars wimmelten ta^ in graufem ©emifdt)/ ' 



3u fdieu^Udfjcn jltumpen gebatlt, 

 S5ei- ftad}licl)c JRod'c, beu ^Uppenfifc^/ 



®c§ >§amnierg 9i:dulid)c Ungcjtalt; 

 Unb bcauenb me6 mir bie gvimmigcn '^h.\)xit 

 ®er entfe^lid^e S^oXj, beg SJieeveg ^i)Sne. 



S>et Soud^c.t/ £tonj. 20. 



Dark welter'd there, in hideous coil 



Of loathsome ball entwined, 

 The prickly Ray, the slimy Lump, 



The grisly Hammer's monster kind ; 

 And, threatful champing, fiercely grinn'd at me 

 The horrid Shark, Hysena of the sea. 

 VOL. I. 



