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18 (N. York region); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. Atlant. Coast, 1929: 20 (general); Wilson, Proc. 

 U.S. nat. Mus., 60 (5), 1922: 23, 24, 67 (Woods Hole, parasites); Breder, Copeia, 1932: 31 (Block 

 Island) ; Giltay, Mem. Mus. Hist. nat. Belg., Hors Ser., 5 (3), 1933: 8 (class.) ; Burton, Sci. Mon. N. Y., 

 4°> 1935- 283 (in abundance near Charleston, S. Carolina); Smith, H. W., Biol. Rev., //, 1936: 52 

 (blood serum); Breder, Copeia, 194.2: 42 (shedding of teeth). 



Triglochis taurus Muller and Henle, Arch. Naturg., (3) /, 1837: 396 (name); S. B. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1837: 114 (not seen); Gill, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 7, 1862: 398 (name); Canestrini, in Cornelia, et al., 

 Fauna d'ltal., Pesci, 3, 1872: 44 (Medit.). 



Odontasps taurus Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1 841: 73 (Medit., Atlant., C. Good Hope) ; Bonaparte, Cat. 

 Pesc. Europ., 1846: 17 (Medit.); Gray, List Fish. Brit. Mus., 1851: 63 (Cape seas); Dumeril, Hist, 

 Nat. Poiss., J, 1865: 417, pi. 7, fig. 3 (Medit., descr., teeth) ; Gervais and Boulart, Poiss., j^, 1877: 187 

 (Medit., Atlant.); Doderlein, Prosp. Metod. Pesci Sicil., 1878-1879: 30 (Sicily); Giglioli, Elenc. 

 Pesc. Ital., 1880: 52 (Medit., not seen) ; Doderlein, Man. Ittiol. Medit., 2, 1881: 58 (Medit.) ; Moreau, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, /, l88i: 291 (Algiers, descr.); Rochebrune, Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, (4) 6, 

 1882: 46; Faune Senegamb., Poiss., /, 1883-1885: 23 (Senegambia) ; Carus, Prod. Fauna Medit., 2, 

 1889-1893: 506 (Medit.); Carrucio, Boll. Soc. Zool. Ital., 77, 1910: 267-272 (Medit., not seen); 

 Roule, Bull. Inst, oceanogr. Monaco, 243, 1912: 9 (St. Lucia I., C. Verde); Metzelaar, Trop. Atlant. 

 Visschen, 1919: 189 (trop. W. Africa) ; Jordan, Copeia, 140, 1925: 20 (name) ; Copeia, 166, 1928: 4 

 (name) ; Belloc, Rev. des Trav. Peches Marit., 7 (2), 1934: 135 (Morocco, Senegal, Canaries) ; Norman 

 and Fraser, Giant Fishes, 1937: 8 (general) ; Fowler, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 100 {13), 1941: 120 (descr., 

 synon. in part). 



Carcharias griseus Ayers, Boston J. Nat. Hist., 4, 1843: 288, pi. 12, fig. 4 (Long Island, N. York, descr.); 

 Linsley, Amer. J. Sci., 47, 1844: 76 (same specimen as Ayers, 1843) ; Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts 

 Sci., 2, 1846: 504; Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 2, 1848: 256 (teeth) ; Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., 9, 

 1867: 219, pi. 36, fig. I; also Fishes Mass., 1867: 241, pi. 36, fig. 1 (descr., Massachusetts). 



Odontasfis griseus Desor, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 2, 1848: 264 (teeth). 



C<wc/4i>r/ij/ /«-oa: Guichenot, Explor. Alger. Poiss., 1850: 124; not SfWtt/ /i;ro* Risso, 1810 (Algiers).^' 



Odontasfis americanus Abbott, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1 861 : 400 (N. Jersey, size) ; Dumeril, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., /, 1865: 419 (descr.) ; Abbott, in Cook, Geol. N. J., 1868: 828 (N. Jersey) ; Gunther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., 8, 1870: 392 (descr., synonyms in part) ; Ribero, Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 14, 1907: 159, 

 202 (south. Brazil) ; Ribeiro, Fauna brasil. Peixes, 2 (l), Fasc. I, 1923: 15 (south. Brazil). 



Eugomfhodus griseus Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1 86 1 : 60 (name) . 



Eugomfhodus littoralis Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1863: 333 (name) ; Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 

 1864: 260 (name, syn.) ; Verrill and Smith, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1871-1872), 1873: 521 (Woods 

 Hole, food); Gill, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1871-1872), 1873: 813; Baird, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. 

 (1871-1872), 1873: 827 (Woods Hole); Bean, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 1881: 115 (east coast, U.S.); 

 Wilson, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5/, 1907: 711 (Woods Hole, parasites); Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 60 (5), 

 1932: 67 (Woods Hole, parasites). 



Carcharias americanus Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 27 (east coast, U.S.). 



Odontasfis littoralis Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 1 6, 1 883 : 874 (name) ; Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 

 1883: 581 (S. Carolina) ; Stevenson, Trans. Vassar Bros. Inst., 2, 1884: 92, i pi. (Nantucket) ; Rathbun, 

 Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 7, 1885: 490 (Vineyard Sound, parasites) ; Nelson, Rep. N. J. geol. Surv. (1888), 

 1890: 662 (N. Jersey record) ; Jordan, Guide to Study Fish., /, 1 905: 534 (general) ; Man. Vert. Anim. 

 NE. U.S., 1929: 12 (general) ; Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 



19 (distrib.) ; Norris, Plagiost. Hypophysis, 1 94 1 : pi. 1 8, fig. 69 (brain) ; Lunz, Bull. S. C. St. Planning 

 Bd., 14, 1944: 27 (S. Carolina, Florida). 



Doubtful References: 



Odontasfis taurus Rochebrune, Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, (4) 6, 1882: 46 (Senegambia; identity doubtful be- 

 cause color, as described, does not agree with that of taurus) . 



27. Not seen; accordifig to Dumeril (Hist. Nat. Poiss., i , 1865 : 418) this specimen, preserved in Paris, was taurus, 

 not ferox. 



