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U.S.) ; Goode and Bean, Smithson. Contr. Knowl., jo, 1895: 16, 508, pi. 4, fig. 14, 15; Mem. Harv. 



Mus. comp. Zool., 22, 1896; Spec. Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 2 (descr., off SE. U.S.) ; Jordan, Evei'mann and 



Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 1 1 (distrib.). 

 Scyliorhinusretifer Regan, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8) /, 1908: 457 (class.) ; Fowler, Copeia, 30, 1916: 36 (off 



mid. Atlant. U.S.) ; Nichols, Copeia, 1931 : 38 (egg cases) ; Schroeder, Copeia, 1931: 42 (off N. Jersey) ; 



Firth, Copeia, 1934: 45 (egg cases, season, off Chesapeake Bay). 

 Catulus relifer Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 214 (Gulf Stream); Bull. U.S. 



nat. Mus., 47 (l), 1896: 25 (descr.. Gulf Stream in deep water off S. Atlant. coast) ; Smith, Bull. N. C. 



geol. econ. Surv., 2, 1907: 31 (off N. Carolina); Gudger, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 25, 1912: 154 (egg 



cases, perhaps this species, N. Carolina) ; Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 56, 1 91 3: 76 (descr.); 



Radcliffe, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 34, 1916: 249 (teeth, denticles, off N. Carolina); Breder, Field Bk. 



Mar. Fishes Atlant. Coast, 1929: 1 1 (general) ; Pearson, U.S. Bur. Fish. Invest. Rep., (10) i, 1932: 17 



(winter trawl fishery, off N. Carolina). 

 (?) Catulus retifer Breder, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. Coll., i (l), 1927: 5 (no loc, see p. 210). 

 Not Scylliorhinus retifer Longley and Hildebrand, Pap. Tortugas Lab., 34, 1 941 : I (this is Galeus arae). 



Scyliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, 1936 



Figures 34, 35 



Study Material. Type specimen, female, 250 mm. long, off Havana, Cuba (Harv. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 1457)} ^^so 14 others, male and female, 130 to 292 mm. long, 

 collected off the north coast of Cuba by the research ship "Atlantis" in March 1938 and 

 April 1939 at depths of 210 to 250 fathoms (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Distinctive Characters. S. torrei is easily separable from S. retifer by its very broadly 

 rounded snout and by its color pattern} from S. boa, which it closely resembles, by the 

 fact that the caudal is about as long as the distance from the tip of the snout to the origin of 

 pectoral, and by its coloration. 



Description. Proportional dimensions in per cent of total length. Female, 250 mm., 

 from Cuba (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., type. No. 1457). Male, 292 mm., from Cuba 

 (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 36093). 



Trunk at origin of -pectoral: breadth 10.8, 10.6; height 9.9, 8.2. 



Snout length in front of: outer nostrils 3.2, 2.4; mouth 4.4, 3.9. 



Eye: horizontal diameter 3.3, 3.1. 



Mouth: breadth 7.2, 6.$; height 3.2, 3.4. 



Nostrils: distance between inner ends 2.4, 2.1. 



Labial furrow length: \ovitr 1.6, 1.5. 



Gill opening lengths: ist 1.8, 2.1; 2nd 1.6, 1.4; 3rd 1.6, 1.45 4th 1.4, 1.2; 5th 



i.O, i.O. 



First dorsal fin: vertical height 5.6, 5.5; length of base 6.8, 6.8. 



Second dorsal fin: vertical height 2.6, 2.6; length of base 5.4, 4.3. 



Anal fin: vertical height 3.4, 3.1 j length of base 9.2, 8.6. 



Caudal fin: upper margin 20.O, 21.O; lower anterior margin 9.6, 8.2. 



Pectoral fin: outer margin 12. r, 10.33 inner margin 6.8, 6.$; distal margin 8.8, 



7-9. 



