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larly harpooned within half a mile of the land off Cohasset, on the southern side of 

 Massachusetts Bay in August 1940/° 



Synonyms and References: 



I. Atlantic:'' 



Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., /, I 758: 235 (type loc, Europe) ; Brunnich, Ichthyol. Massil., 1768: 

 5 (Adriatic, food); Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, 4, Atlas, 1758: pi. 119; Gmelin, in Linnaeus, Syst. 

 Nat., 13th ed., 5, 1789: 1498 (part) ; Walbaum, P. Artedi Genera Pise. Emend. Ichthyol., 3, 1792: 514 

 (descr., Medit., Atlant.) ; Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 1801: 132 (descr., ref.) ; Blumenbach, 

 Handb. Naturg., 7, 1803: 263 (ref.) ; Bosc, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 27, 1803: 185 (general) ; Latreille, 

 Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 24, 1804: 72 (in table of contents) ; Nardo, Prod. Itiol. Adriat., 1827: 9 (Ad- 

 riatic) ; Voigt, in Cuvier, Tierreich, 2, 1832: 505 (descr.) ; Griffith, in Cuvier, Anim. Kingd. with Adds., 

 70, 1834: 599 (general); Bonaparte, Mem. Soc. neuchatel Sci. nat., 2 (8), 1839: 10 (in synopsis); 

 Nardo, Atti 1st. veneto, (3) 5, 1859-1860: 787 (Medit.); Gemellaro, Sagg. Itiol. Catania, 1864: 120 

 (Medit., not seen) ; Vieria and Clavijo, Dice. Hist. Nat. Isl. Canaries, Real Soc. Econ. Las Palmas, 1866- 

 1869, Mss. of 1799 (Canaries, not seen) ; Buckland, Hist. Brit. Fish., 1881 : 211 (general). 



White Shark, Brookes, Nat. Hist., 5, 1763: 28 (general); Pennant, Brit. Zool., 5, 1769: 82 (general); also 

 subsequent ed.; Pennant, Arctic Zool., Suppl., 1787: 105 (America). 



Cane carcharia Cetti, Amfib. Pesci Sardegna, 1777: 69 (Sardinia). 



Squale requin, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 7, 4° ed., 1798: 165, 169, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. (part, combined 

 with Carcharkinus), not pi. 8, fig. I, which is Carcharhinus; in Sonnini, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 5, I 802: 332 

 (part, combined with Carcharhinus, see p. 320), pi. 4, fig. 2, 3 (teeth), not pi. 4, fig. I, which is 

 Carcharhinus (see p. 3 2o) . 



Carcharias lamia Rafinesque, Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 1810: 44 (substituted for Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, I 758, 

 Sicily); Fitzinger, Bild. Atlas Naturg. Fische, 1864: fig. 169 (ill.). 



Squalus [Carcharias) carcharias Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2, I 81 7: I 26 (general, size). 



Carcharias terus Cloquet, Diet. Sci. Nat., 7, 1822: 69 (general); Reguis, Ess. Hist. Nat. Provence, 7 (l), 

 1877: 46 (Medit.). 



Squalus {Carcharhinus) carcharias Blainville, in Vieillot, Faune Franc, 1825: 89 (descr.). 



Carcharias carcharias Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist, nat., 75, 1829: 596; Cuvier, Regne Anim., 111. ed., 

 Poiss., 1842-1843: 360, pi. 114, fig. 2a (tooth); Jordan, Copeia, 140, 1925: 20 (name). 



Carcharias rondeletti Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist, nat., 75, 1829: 596 (general); Reguis, Ess. Hist. 

 Nat. Provence, 7 (l), 1877: 47 (Medit.). 



Squalus {Carcharias) vulgaris Richardson, Fauna Boreal. Amer., 5, 1836: 288 (ref.). 



Carcharias (no specific name), Agassiz, L., Poiss. Foss., j, 1835: pi. F, fig. 3 (teeth, see footnote I, p. 133). 



Carcharodon smithii Agassiz, L., Poiss. Foss., 5, 1838: 91 (name only) ;^* Bonaparte, Mem. Soc. neuchatel. 

 Sci. nat., 2 (8), 1839: 9 (in synopsis). 



Carcharodon verus Agassiz, L., Poiss. Foss., j, 1838: 91 (teeth). 



Carcharias vulgaris Hamilton, Brit. Fish., 2, 1843: 304, and subsequent eds. (Gt. Brit., general). 



CfTrc/^arOi/ora/^wz/a Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., 5 (2), I 839: pi. [52] (descr., colored ill., general) ; Cat. Pesc. 

 Europ., 1846: 17 (Medit.); Sassi, Cat. Pcsci Liguri., 1846: 123 (Medit., not seen); Nardo, Atti 1st. 

 veneto, (3) 5, I 859-1 860: 787 (Medit.) ; Ninni, An. Soc. Nat. Modena, 5, 1870: 66 (Medit.) ; Morc-au, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, 7, 1881: 302 (descr., France); Bellotti, Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., jj, 1891: 111 

 (name) ; Belloc, Rev. des Trav. Peches Marit., 7, Fasc. 2, 1934: 138 (ill. after Bonaparte; Morocco, Rio 

 de Oro, Mauritania, Senegal). 



Carcharodon rondeletti Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841: 70 (Brazil, Australia, descr., meas.) ; Gray, List 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., 1851: 61; Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1861: 60 (name); Dumeril, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., 7, 1865: 41 1 (descr., size, Medit., Algeria, Atl., C. Good Hope), pi. 7, fig. 7 (tooth) ; 



36. We had the opportunity of examining two of these Massachusetts Bay specimens soon after they were landed, 

 and have received photographs of others. 



37. For Indo-Pacific references, see p. 144. 38. Nomen nudem. 



