Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 157 



2253 (descr., meas., Cornwall); Allman, Nature, Lond., 14, 1876: 368 (gill rakers, food); Harvey, 

 Nature, Lend., 75, 1877: 273 (Newfoundland) ; Stevenson, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1902), 1904: 227 

 (fishery, yield of oil) ; Grew, lllustr. London News, Aug. 1 1, 1945: 166 (general account). 



Le Trcs Grand, Broussonet, Mem. Math. Phys. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1780: 669; Daubenton, Encyc. Method. 

 Hist. nat. Paris, 5, 1 787: 96 (teeth). 



Le Squale Tres-Grand, Lacepede, Hist. nat. Poiss., 4° ed., /, 1798: 165, 2og, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. (descr., 

 size) ; in Sonnini, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 5, 1801-1802: 400 (general). 



Squalus gunnerianus Blainville, J. Physique, 1810: 256, pi. 2, fig. 3 (descr.). 



Squalus homianus Blainville, J. Physique, 1810: 257, pi. 2, fig. I (descr.). 



Squalus felegrinus Blainville, J. Physique, 18 10: 256, pi. 2, fig. 2 (descr.). 



Squalus feregrinus Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 2, 181 1 : 365 (size); Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, 18, 

 181 1 : 132 (discuss.). 



Squale pelerin Blainville, Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris, 18, 1 811: 88, pi. 6 (detailed descr., ill. of 29-ft. 4-'m. 

 male, is the one most often copied). 



Cetorhinus gunneri Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 1816: 121 (name). 



Cetorhinus komianus Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 1816: 121 (name). 



Cetorhinus feregrinus Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, i8l6: 121 (name). 



Cetorhinus shavianus Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 1816: 121 (name); J. Physique, 1816; 264 (not 

 seen). 



SeUche maxima^" Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2, 1817: 129 (general) ; Regne Anim., 2nd ed., 2, 1829: 391 (gen- 

 eral) ; Cloquet, Diet. Sci. Nat., ^S, 1825: 308 (general) ; Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., 15, 

 1829: 597 (general) ; Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. Anim., 1835: 503 (descr., Gt. Brit.) ; Richardson, Fauna 

 Boreal. Amer., 5, 1836: 29; Parnell, Mem. Werner. Soc. Edinb., 7, 1838: 418 (Scot.); Bonaparte, 

 Mem. Soc. neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 2 (8), 1839: 9 (in synopsis) ; Owen, Odontogr., 1840-1845: 27 (descr. 

 of teeth of 36-ft. spec.) ; Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841 : 71 (descr., distrib.) ; Cuvier, Regne Anim., 

 ill. ed. Poiss., 1843: 363, pi. 115, fig. 2 (good ill. of teeth); Owen, Cat. Osteol. Roy. Coll. Surg., i, 

 1853: 97 (brief descr., vertebrae, refs.) ; Traill, Proc. roy. Soc. Edinb., j, 1854: 210 (argues "animal 

 of Stronsa" not a Basking Shark) ; Van der Hocvcn, Handb. Dierkunde, 2nd ed., 2, 1855: 261 (general) ; 

 Nilsson, Skand. Fauna Fisk., 1855: 720 (Scandinavia); Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, 4, 1856: 253 

 (Ireland, fishery); Nardo, Atti 1st. veneto, (3) 5, 1 859-1 860: 787 (Medit.) ; Fitzinger, Bild. Atlas 

 Naturg. Fische, 1864: fig. 173 (ill.); Malmgren, Arch. Naturgesch., jo (i), 1864: 346 (north. Nor- 

 way); Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., /, 1865: 413, pi. 3, fig. 18 (descr., size, ill., teeth); Bocage and Brito 

 Capello, Poiss. Plagiost., 1866: 14 (Portugal) ; Malmgren, Oefvers. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. Stockholm, 24, 

 1867: 264 (Norway) ; Brito Capello, J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, 2, 1870: 140 (Portugal) ; Giinther, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1870: 394, 518 (descr., distrib., synonyms) ; Ninni, An. Soc. Nat. Modena, 5, 

 1870: 66 (Medit.) ; Van Beneden, Poiss. Cotes Belg. Parasit., 1870: 70 (parasites, Belgium), also in Mem. 

 Acad. R. Belg. CI. Sci., ^8 (4), 1871: 7; Canestrini, in Cornalia, et al., Fauna d'ltal., 1 871-1872: 44 

 (Medit.); Pavesi, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Geneva, 6, 1874: 36, pi. 1—3 (descr.; ill. juv.; anat., Medit.); 

 Collett, Norges Fisk., 1875: 209 (Norway); Trois, Atti 1st. veneto, (5) / (6), 1875: 612 (Medit.); 

 Wright, Nature, Lond., 14, 1876: 31 3 (gill rakers, diet, value of oil, Ireland) ; Giglioli, Nature, Lond., 

 15, 1877: 273 (name) ; Hasse, Morph. Jb., Suppl. 4, 1878: 43, pi. 3, 4, fig. I (anat.) ; Pavesi, Ann. Mus. 

 Stor. nat. Genova, 12, 1878: 416, pi. 3 (meas., ill. of young male, anat., discus.) ; Doderlein, Atti Accad. 

 Palermo, 6, 1 878-1 879: 30 (Medit.); Stossich, Boll. Soc. adriat. Sci. nat., 5, 1880: 68 (Adriatic); 

 Turner, J. Anat., Lond., 14, 1 880: 273, pi. 12 (teeth, gill rakers) ; Day, Fish. Gt. Brit., 2, 1 880-1884: 

 303, pi. 158, fig. I (descr., Gt. Brit.); Doderlein, Man. Ittiol. Medit., 2, 1881: 70 (Medit.);*" Mo- 

 reau. Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, i, 1881 : 305 (general) ; Hasse, Naturl. Syst. Elasm. besond. Theil, 1882: 

 236, pi. 32, fig. 1-5 (vertebrae); Mela, Vert. Fennica, 1882: 365 (Murman coast, not seen); Vieira, 

 Ann. Sci. nat. Porto, 7, 1894: 137 (Portugal); Brandt, Biol. Zbl., 18, 1898: 257 (bristles described 

 on snout probably were dermal denticles); Saemundsson, Vidensk. Medd. naturh. Foren. Kbh., 1899: 



39. Also variously spelled "maximus" or "maximum." 



40. For additional Mediterranean citations in publications not accessible to us, see Doderlein (above) and Cascia 

 (Bull. 1st. zool. Palermo, 2, 1935: 173). 



