Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 289 



Information as to the occurrence of the Blue Shark in coastal waters in the south- 

 western Atlantic is limited to records for Brazil and the offing of the Rio de La Plata. 



Synonyms: 



References for Atlantic, South Africa, West Coast of America:^" 



Squalus gkucus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., /, 1758: 235 (Europ. Oc.) ; Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1766: 401; Watson, 

 Philos. Trans., 68 (i), 1779: 789, pi. 12, 2 fig. (descr., ill., Devonshire, Eng.) ; Bloch, Naturg. 

 Fisch. Dtsch., 3, 1784: 78, pi. 86 (North Sea, Baltic); Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Meth. Ichthyol., 

 1788: 9, pi. 7, fig. 22 (general); Gmelin, in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., /, 1789: 1496 (descr.); Walbaum, 

 P. Artedi Genera Pise. Emend. Ichthyol., 1792: 513 (descr.); Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 

 1 801: 131 (descr.); Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 24, 1804: 72 (in table of contents); Turton, 

 Gen. Syst. Nature, i, 1806: 919 (general); Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, 1810: 26 (descr., Medit.) ; Retzius, 

 Obs. Anat. Chondropt. Lundae, 1819: 3, pi., fig. I (anat.) ; Martens, Reise Vened., 2, 1824: 408 

 (Medit., not seen); Nardo, Prod. Ittiol. Adriat., 1827: 9 (Adriatic); Voigt, in Cuvier, Tierreich, 2, 

 1832: 506 (descr.); Couch, Cornish Fauna, 1838: 50 (Cornwall); Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. 

 Rept., 2, 1839: 312 (general) ; Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., 3, Fasc. 37: 1840: pi. not numbered, fig. I 

 (descr., Medit.); Cat. Pesc. Europ., 1846: 18 (Medit.); Nardo, Pesc. Publ. com. Nuovo Venez., 1853: 

 15 (Medit.); Machado, Feces Cadiz, 1857: 9 (near Cadiz); Gemmellaro, Atti Acad. Gioenia, (2) 19 

 (3), 1864: 123 (Medit.) ; Ninni, Ann. Soc. Nat. Modena, 5, 1870: 66 (Medit.) ; Buckland, Hist. Brit. 

 Fish., 1 881: 212 (general, Gt. Brit.); Tarel, Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, 86, Proc. Verb., 1934: 113 

 (Arcachon, France). 



Squalus adscensionis Osbeck, Voy. China E. Indies, 1771 : 78 (not seen, quoted from Bloch, 1784). 



Le Squale Glauque, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 4° ed., 1 798: 165, 213, pi. 9, fig. I, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. 

 (general) ; in Sonnini, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 3, 1802: 405 (color, general). 



Blue Shark, Yarrell, Brit. Fish., 2, 1836: 381 (Brit. loc. records). 



Carcharias glaucus Rafinesque, Indice Ittiol. Sicil., 1810: 45 (Sicily); Cloquet, Diet. Sci. Nat., 7, 1817: 68 

 (general); Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2, 1817: 126 (general); Fleming, J., Hist. Brit. Anim., 1828: 167 

 (Cornwall); Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., 15, 1829: 597 (general); Agassiz, L., Poiss. 

 Foss., 3, 1835-1837: 12, pi. F, fig. I (teeth); Owen, Odontogr., 1840-1845: 27 (teeth); Cuvier, 

 Regne Anim., ill. ed., Poiss., 1843: 361 ; Hamilton, Brit. Fish., 2, 1843: 303 (Gt. Brit.); Busch, 

 Selach. Ganoid Encephalo, 1848: pi. 3, fig. 4-6 (brain) ; Gosse, Nat. Hist. Fish., 1851 : 306 (general) ; 

 Baikie, Zoologist, //, 1853: 3846 (Orkney I.); Owen, Cat. Osteol. Roy. Coll. Surg., /, 1853: 93, 94 

 (vertebrae); Gray, Hist. Chile Zool., 2, 1854: 364 (Chile, not seen); Van der Hoeven, Handb. Dier- 

 kunde, (2) 2, 1855: 262 (general); Thompson, W., Nat. Hist. Ireland, 4, 1856: 250 (Ireland); Brito 

 Capello, J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, 2, 1870: 142 (Portugal) ; Miklucho-Maclay, Beitr. Vergl. Neurol. 

 Wirbelt., I, 1 870: 23, pi. 4, fig. IO-12 (brain); Mcintosh, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (4) 14, 1874: 424 

 (w. coast of Scot.); Reguis, Ess. Hist. Nat. Provence, I (i), 1877: 47 (Medit.); Gunther, Guide to 

 Study Fish., 1880: 317, fig. 112 (general); Brito Capello, Cat. Peix. Portugal, 1880: 46 (Portugal); 

 Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, i, 1881: 329 (France, Medit.) ; Perugia, Elenc. Pesc. Adriat., 1881: 

 52 (Adriatic) ; Day, Fish. Gt. Brit., 2, 1 880-1 884: 289, pi. 152 (descr., Gt. Brit.) ; Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 872 (name) ; Jouan, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. nat. Cherbourg, 24, 1884: 313 

 (Cherbourg, France); Gunther, "Challenger" Rep., 31, 1 889: 5 (S. Atlant., Japan); Bellotti, Atti 

 Soc. ital. Sci. nat., 33, 1891: 112; Carus, Prod. Fauna Medit., 2, 1 889-1 893: 512 (Medit., Iocs, 

 and refs.); Smitt, Hist. Scand. Fish., 2, 1895: 1 1 30, pi. 50, fig. 3 (descr., refs., Seand. Iocs.); 

 Murray, "Challenger" Rep., Summary, 2, 1 895: 892, 893, 1 207 (S. of Japan; west. S. Atlant. 

 off Rio de la Plata); Nobre, Ann. Sci. nat. Porto., 2, 1895: 225 (Portugal); Osorio, J. Sci. math, 

 phys. nat. Lisboa, (2) 5, 1898: 200 (St. Thome I.); Evans, Ann. Scot. nat. Hist., 7, 1898: 239 

 (Firth of Forth, Scot.); Sicher, Atti Accad. gioenia, (4) ri, 1898: 14 (Medit.); Jouan, Mem. 

 Soc. Sci. nat. Cherbourg, 31, 1900: 222 (Cherbourg); Steinhardt, Arch. Naturg., Jahrg. 69 (x), 



25. For references for the central and western Pacific, Australasian region and Indian Ocean, see Fowler (Bull. U.S. 

 nat. Mus., 100 [x^], 1941 : 178). 



