2i6 Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 



Galeus arae (Nichols), 1927 



Figures 36, 37 



Study Material. 2i specimens, male and female, 138 to 329 mm. long, taken off the 

 north coast of Cuba, at "Atlantis" stations 2981, 2982, 2985, 2987, 3431, 3437, 3441 j 

 and near Tortugas, Florida, in 200 to 345 fathoms (Harv. Mus. Gjmp. Zool.)- Also a 

 specimen from Tortugas, Florida (U.S. Nat. Mus.). 



Distinctive Characters. The presence of the caudal crest of large denticles marks 

 G. arae off from all other scyliorhinids yet known from the western Atlantic. 



Descriftion. Proportional dimensions in per cent of total length. Female, 202 mm., 

 from off Tortugas, Florida (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 35250). Male, 324 mm., 

 from Cuba (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 361 18). 



Trunk at origin of -pectoral: breadth 8.8, 9.25 height 7.4, 7.3. 

 Snout length in front of: outer nostrils 4.0, 3.45 mouth 7.6, 7. i . 

 Eye: horizontal diameter 4.2, 4.3. 



Figure 36. Galeus arae, adult male, 324 mm. long, from off the north coast of Cuba (Harv. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., No. 361 18). i4 Anterior part of head from below, about 1.4 x. 5 Pelvic fins and claspers, about 0.5 x natu- 

 ral size. C First to fourth upper teeth. D Twelfth and thirteenth upper teeth. E Thirty-fourth upper tooth. 

 F First to fifth lower teeeth. G Sixteenth and seventeenth lower teeth. H Twenty-third lower tooth. / Thirtieth 

 and thirty-first lower teeth. C-l, about 1 2 x. 7 Dermal denticles, about 60 x. 



