Class IV. LESSER SPOTTED DOG FISH. 115 



The chief difference feeming to be in the color 

 and the fize of the fpots ; the former being grey, 

 the latter fewer but larger than in the other. 



Le mufcarol ? Belon, 64. ventralibusconcretis. Arted. 47- Lesser 



Catulus minor. VVil. Idh.6\. fynon. 97. SPOTTED. 



LefTer Rough Hound, or Mor- Squalus catulus. Lin.fyft. 400. 



gay Rail fyn. pifc. 22. Grono<v. Zoopb. No. 144. 

 Squalus dorfo vario, pinnis 



'TpHE weight of one that was brought to us by 

 A a fifherman was only one pound twelve 

 ounces ♦, the length two feet two inches : it is of a 

 (lender make in all parts. 



The head was flat : the noftrils covered with 

 a long flap : the nofe blunt, and marked beneath 

 with numerous fmall punctures : behind each eye 

 was a fmall orifice: the back fins, like thofe of 

 the former, placed far behind. 



The ventral fins are united, forming as if it were 

 but one, which is a fure mark of this fpecies. 



The tail finned like that of the greater dog fifh. 



The color is cinereous, (freaked in fome parts 

 with red, and generally marked with numbers of 

 fmall black fpots \ but we have obferved in fome 

 that they are very faint and obfcure. 



The belly is white. 



This fpecies breeds from nine to thirteen young 

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