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Newfoundland Dept. Nat. Res., Fish. Res. Lab., Ann. Rep., 2, 1935: 79, pi. 2 (Newfoundland, photos) ; 

 Pozzi and Bordale, An. Soc. cient. argent., 120, 1935: 150 (Argentina) ; Vladykov and McKenzie, Proc. 

 N. S. Inst. Sci., J 9 (l), 1935: 47 (general) ; Lubbert and Ehrenbaum, Handb. Seefisch. Nordeurop., 2, 

 1936: 280 (descr., distrib., fishery); Barnard, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 32 (2), 1937: 43 (descr., meas., S. 

 Afr.); Norman, 'Discovery' Rep., 16 (2), 1937: 143 (Falkland Is.); Norman and Fraser, Giant Fishes, 

 1937: 20, fig. 14 (general) ; White, Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist., 74, 1937: 64, 79, 1 14, pi. 4, fig. 5, pi. 

 7-9, pi. 29, fig. c, pi. 46, fig. b (anat., photo of gill rakers) ; Tortonese, Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., 77, 1938: 

 292 (Medit.) ; Babic, Zool. Anz., 127, 1939: 39 (anat. notes; ill. of denticles) ; Schroeder, New Engl. 

 Naturalist, 2, 1939: I (supposed sea serpent stranded on C. Cod, 1939, a Basking Shark); McKenzie, 

 Proc. N. S. Inst. Sci., 20 (2), 1940: 42 (Nova Scotian records; size; weights); Nybelin, Fauna Flora 

 Uppsala, 1940: 236 (Katteg.nt) ; Hildehrand, Copeia, 1941: 222 (N. Carolina, old records); Norris, 

 Plagiost. Hypophysis, 1941: 29, pi. 10, fig. 35-38 (brain). 



Squalus cetaceous Gray, Cat. Fish. Coll. Descr. by L. T. Gronow, 1854: 6 (Norway). 



Polyfrosofus rashleighanus GiU, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 7, 1862: 398 (name) ; Couch, Hist. Brit. Fish., t, 1867: 

 67, pi. 15, fig. I (descr., size, Cornwall) . 



Polyfrosofus macer Couch, Hist. Brit. Fish., i, 1867: 68, pi. 15, fig. 2 (descr., young female, Plymouth, 

 England). 



No name, Hannover, K. danske Vidensk.-Selsk. Skr., (5) 7, 1868: 491 (descr. and ill. of gill rakers in Copen- 

 hagen Mus., not identified). 



Cetorhinus blairivillii Brito Capello, J. Sci. math. phys. nat., Lisboa, 2, 1870: 234, I pi. (descr., ill. of small 

 spec, Portugal). 



Cetorhinus rostratus Cornish, Zoologist, 5, 1870: 2259 (Cornwall, descr., meas.). 



Selacke rostrata Pavesi, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genoa, 1874: 36 (descr. of young, anat., gill rakers, Medit.); 

 GIglioli, Nature, Lend., 15, 1877: 273 (discuss.); Doderlein, Atti Accad. Palermo, 6, 1878-1879: 30 

 (Medit.). 



SelacAus fenrumti Coin'ish, Zoologist, (3) p, 1885: 351 (Cornwall). 



Cetorhinus (Selache) maximus Bridge, Camb. nat. Hist., 7, 1904: 453 (general). 



Cethorinus (Selache) maximus Escribano, Bol. Soc. esp. Hist, nat., 9, 1909: 340 (Medit., Morocco). 



Halsydrus maximus Fowler, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., lOO {13), 1941 : 1 1 3 (descr., synonymy, Australasian refs.) ; 

 Feces Peru, Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 1 945: 12 (listed Peru). 



Doubtful references: 



Halsydrus fontoffidani Fleming, Scots. Mag. Edinb. Misc., 1809: 6; Edinb. Encycl., 1817: 713 (Stronsa, 



Orkney Is."). 

 Tetroras angiova Rafinesque, Carrat. Gen. Nuov. Sicil., 1810: II (Sicily). 

 Not Cetorhinus maximus Poey, An. Soc. esp. Hist, nat., 5, 1876: 184 (Cuba, no doubt Rhincodon). 



Family ALOPIIDAE 



Characters. Two dorsal fins, the ist much shorter than caudal, the rear end of its 

 base anterior to origin of pelvicsj caudal nearly or quite V2 of total length, not lunate in 

 form, but its lower anterior corner expanded as a definite lobe, its axis raised but little/ 

 inner margins of pelvics entirely separate, posterior to cloaca} caudal peduncle not de- 

 pressed dorso-ventrally, but moderately compressed laterally} a well marked precaudal 

 pit above, and sometimes below j sides of trunk anterior to anal without longitudinal 



43. The animal of Stronsa, named Halsydrus fontoffidani by Fleming, seems to have been the partly decomposed 

 remains of a large Basking Shark; see footnote 4, p. 146. 



I. The enormously elongate caudal is the most striking feature of the family. 



