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up to 16 feet in length have recently been reported among one catch of 51 sharks of all 

 kinds."' No doubt it is equally common among the Antilles generally, and around Cuba. 

 In southern Florida waters it is present among the Keys and on both the Atlantic and the 

 Gulf of Mexico coasts throughout the year. Curiously enough, we have found no records 

 of it for the Atlantic coasts of Central America and only one vague report for the inner 

 Gulf of Mexico. But it has been encountered recently in July in the northern side of the 

 Gulf off Biloxi, Mississippi.'" And the poverty of the printed record, rather than any local 

 scarcity, probably explains the lack of reports of it along Central America. 



The Tiger Shark is only a summer visitor to the Atlantic coast of the United States 

 north of Florida. Although there is only one definite record of it for South Carolina, 

 considerable numbers must pass by there, at least in some years, for they have been reported 

 repeatedly along North Carolina, sometimes in schools, even entering the enclosed 

 sounds and river mouths at times. Only odd specimens have been reported from the sector 

 thence northward past New York, i.e., in Chesapeake Bay (once), Delaware Bay (once), 

 New Jersey (about four times), Long Island, New York (once), and Newport, Rhode 

 Island (once. Fig. 44). But like many other tropical fishes, Tiger Sharks appear more 

 often in the Woods Hole region, where one to three are taken in the pound nets almost 

 every summer, more often small but sometimes large. However, this is the northeastern 

 limit to their occurrence inshore,^' though odd specimens may be expected to stray much 

 farther in this direction offshore in the tropical waters of the Gulf Stream j the often quoted 

 Icelandic specimen may well have journeyed by that route. 



To the southward the Tiger Shark is known from southern Brazil and Uruguay. 

 Probably it occurs commonly all along the northeastern and northern coasts of South 

 America, although it is not yet recorded there in scientific literature. It is also taken or 

 seen from time to time around Bermuda. 



Synonyms and References: 



I. Atlantic: 



Cants carcharias^* Duhamel, Traite Gen. Peches, 4 (2) Sect. 9, 1782: 297 (in part), pi. 19, fig. 3 (teeth, not 



fig- 1-3)- 

 Squale (no spec, name) Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 4° ed., i, 1798: pi. 8, fig. 2, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. (jaws). 

 S^ua/us cuvier Le^near, ]. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 2, 1822: 351 (Aust.). 

 Carchorhinus lamia Blainville, in Vieillot, Faune Franc, 1825: 88 (teeth, ident. by ref. to Duhamel, Traite 



Gen. Peches, 4 [2] Sect. 9, 1782: 298, pi. 19). 

 Squalus arctiais Faber, Fisches Islands, 1829: 17 (teeth, Iceland, confused with Isurus nasus) ; Nilsson, Prod. 



Ichthyol. Skand., 1832: 115 (Iceland). 

 Galeus (ho spec, name) Agassiz, L., Poiss. Foss., j, 1835: pi. E, fig. 5, 6 (teeth); Owen, Odontogr., 1840- 



1845: pi. 28, fig. 9 (teeth; shows a sting-ray's spine imbedded in jaw). 

 Galeus maculatus Ranzani, Nov. Comment. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bonon., 1840: 7, pi. I (descr., Brazil). 

 Galeocerdo arcticus Miiller and Henle, Arch. Naturg., (3) i, 1837: 398 (name); Plagiost., 1841: 60, 



pi. 64 (descr., distrib. probably confused with that of Lamna nasus) ; Bonaparte, Mem. See. neu- 



21. Wise, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 38, 1936: 311. 22. Personal communication from Stewart Springer. 



23. Doubtfully reported from Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. 



24. Duhamel's names, if binomial, are only accidentally so. 



