9 s 



ANGEL FISH. Class IV, 



VI. 



SHARK. 



Slender body growing lefs towards the tail. 



Two fins on the back. 



Rouo-h fkin. 



»• 



Five apertures on the fides of the neck. 



Mouth generally placed far beneath the end of the 



nofe. 

 The upper part of the tail longer than the lower. 



* Without the anal fin. 



39. Angel. P/wi. Arifl. Hijl. an. lib. V. 



c. 5, &c. Atkenaus, lib. VII. 



^.319. 

 Oppian Halieut. I. 388, 742. 

 Squatina Plin. lib. IX. c. 12. 

 ' Rhina, fc. Squatus. lib. 



XXXII. c. 11. 

 L'Ange, ou Angelot de mer. 



Be Ion 69. 

 Squatina. Rondel, $6y. Gefner 



pifc. 899. Wil, Icth. 79. 



Monk, or Angel Fiih. Rail 

 fyn. pifc. 26. 



Squalus fquatina. Lin. fyfi. 

 398. S. pinna ani nulla, 

 caudal duabus, ore termi- 

 nali, naribus cirrofis. Ibid. 



Sq. pinna ani carens, ore in 

 apice capitis. Ar ted. fyn. 95. 



Gronov. Zooph. Na. 151. 



THIS is the fifti which connects the genus of 

 Rays and Sharks, partaking fomething of 

 the character of both ; yet in an exception to 

 each in the fituation of the mouth, which is pla- 

 ced at the extremity of the head. 



It is a fifri not unfrequent on molt of our coafts, 

 where it prowls about for prey like others of the 

 kind,. It is extremely voracious, and* like the 



Ray, 



