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Range. S. torrei is so far known only off the northern coast of Cuba, but evidently 

 it is common there. 



Synonyms and References: 



Catulus boae Sanchez-Roig, Revist. Agric. Feces Cubana Commerc. Trabaj., 1931: 17 (Cuba, not seen); not 

 Scylliorhinus boa Goode and Bean, 1 895. 



Scylliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 41, 1936: 43, pi. 9 (descr., deep water off 

 Havana, Cuba) ;'' Fowler, Fish Guitarist, 21 (9), 1942: 66, fig. I (listed, Cuba) ; Bigelow and Schroeder, 

 Guide Comm. Shark Fish., Anglo Amer. Caribb. Comm., Wash., 1945: 114 (ill.). 



Genus Galeus Rafinesque, 1 8 10. 



Galeus Rafinesque, Carratt. Gen. Nuov. Sicil., 1 8 10: 13; type species, G. melastomus Rafinesque, designated by 

 Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., do, 1908: 53.^ 



Generic Synonyms: 



Squalus (in part) Gunnerus, Trondh. Gesellsch. Schr. Leipzig, 2, 1766: 249; not Squdus Linnaeus, 1758. 



Scyllium (in part) Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, 1 8 10: 30; not Scyllium Cuvier, 1 81 7. 



Scylliorhinus (in part) Blainville, in Vieillot, Faune Franc, 1825: 68, 75. 



Pristiurus^ Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., 5, 1834: 4th p. (not numbered) in description of "Scyllium caniculi^' ; 



type species, P. meUmostomum Bonaparte; 1834, equals Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1 8 1 0. 

 Pristidurus^ Bonaparte, Mem. Soc. neuchatel. Sci. nat., 2 (8), 1839: 11 ; evident emendation of Pristiurus 



Bonaparte, 1 834. 

 Figaro Whitley, Rec. Aust. Mus., t6, 1928: 238; type species, Figaro boardmani Whitley. 



Generic Characters. Two dorsal fins, the ist originating over rear part of pelvics; 

 denticles along dorsal margin of anterior part of caudal enlarged and modified in shape, 

 forming a distinct crest, bounded below by a narrow band of naked skin on either side; 

 lower margin of caudal peduncle with or without a similar crest of enlarged denticles; 

 nostrils far from mouth and far apart, their anterior margins without barbels, their pos- 

 terior margins not expanded as flaps; snout long, thin, its mucous pores not conspicuous; 

 labial furrow extending from lower jaw around corner of mouth onto upper jaw, the upper 

 lip not closing outside lower at corner of mouth ; upper eyelid not closing outside lower 

 at corner of eye; a longitudinal fold or none below eye; 4th gill opening close in front 

 of pectoral, the 5th over pectoral; teeth alike in the 2 jaws, with long pointed median 

 cusp and i to 3 smaller cusps on each side, much as in Scyliorhinus, with several rows 



35. Howell-Rivero states that the specimen on which he bases his new species, torrei, is the same one earlier referred 

 to by Sanchez-Roig as Catulus boae. 



1. The name Galeus was first used by Klein, 1775 (Neuer Schauplatz) and by Valmont (Diet. Hist. Nat., /, 1798: 

 371) i but it must date from Rafinesque (Carrat. Gen. Nuov. Sicil., 18 10: 13), both Klein's and Valmont's names 

 having been ruled inapplicable by the International Committee on Zoological Nomenclature because such of them 

 as were binomial were so only accidentally (Smithson. misc. Coll., 75 [3], 1925: 27, Opinion 89). In his 

 account of the genus, Rafinesque mentioned only two species, melastomus Rafinesque and uyato Rafinesque, al- 

 though he expanded the genus to include seven species in his list of Sicilian fishes published later the same year 

 (Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 18 10). 



2. The name Pristiurus has frequently been credited to Bonaparte, 1831 (Saggio Anim. Vert.: 121). But this first 

 mention of it was nominal only, without diagnosis or reference to any actual species, i.e., it was a nomen rmdem^. 

 For the actual dates of appearance of the individual plates and accompanying text of the Fauna Italica, see Sal- 

 vadori (Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. comp. Torino, 5 [48], 1888). 



3. The generic name Pristidurus was used a year earlier by L. Agassiz (Poiss. Foss., 3, 1838: 85) with a brief 

 account of the teeth, but without mention of any particular species. 



