Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 389 



records for the Bahamas (hence perhaps not actually based on that species at all), Trinidad, 

 British Guiana and Brazil. It is also reported as taken well offshore around Bermuda, as 

 is to be expected from Its pelagic nature. 



Synonyms and References:*" 



Squalus obscurus Lesueur, J. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., i, 1818: 223, pi. g (descr., good ill., N. Amer. but no 



precise loc.) ; Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1 861 : 59 (ref. to Lesueur, in list, N. Amer.). 

 Carcharias jalci-pinnis Lowe, Proc. zool. See. Lond., 7, 1839: 90; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 11, 1848: 



93; Trans, zool. Soc. Lond., j, 1849: 18 (specs, later ident. by Gunther, 1870, as obscurus, Madeira). 

 Carcharias {Prionodon) obscurus Muller and Henle, Plagiost., 1 841: 46 (ref. to Lesueur, N. Amer.); Du- 



meril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., r, 1865: 371 (descr., from Lesueur, i8i8, N. Amer.); Gunther, Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1870: 366 (descr., specs., Madeira, St. Helena) ; Metzelaar, Trop. Atlant. Visschen, 



1919: 187 (refs., both coasts N. Atlant.). 

 Carcharias obscurus Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., 75, 1829: 597 (ref. to Lesueur, 1 8 1 8) ; Storer, 



Mass. Zool. Bot. Surv., Rep. on Fish., 1839: 184 (ref. to Lesueur only) ; Boston J. nat. Hist., 2, 1839: 



533 (descr. after Lesueur, but teeth from Mass. Bay more likely Prionace glauca) ; DeKay, Zool. N. Y., 



4, 1842: 350, pi. 61, fig. 201 (descr., ill. after Lesueur, no loc.) ; Rep. St. Cab. nat. Hist. N. Y. (1855), 

 8, 1858: 64 (listed for N. York); Mellis, "St. Helena Pisces," 1875 (not seen); Gunther, "Chal- 

 lenger" Rep., Zool., I (6), 1880: 5 (name only, near St. Helena); Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. 

 nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 872 (ref. to Lesueur); Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 1883: 244 (coast of U.S.); 

 Bean, T. H., Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1882), 1884: 343 (Woods Hole) ; Gunther, "Challenger" Rep., 

 Zool., 31 (2), 1889: 5 (name only, near Sierra Leone and Ascension L) ; Nelson, Rep. St. Geol. N. J., 

 2 (2), 1890: 660 (N. Jersey, not common); Vincinguerra, Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., 34, 1892: 30 

 (ref. to obvclatus Valenciennes, 1 844, Canaries); Jordan, Manual Vert. Anim. NE. U.S., 1929: 10 

 (general); Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 10 (N. and mid. 

 Atlant.); Beebe and Tee-Van, Field Bk. Shore Fish. Bermuda, 1933: 28 (descr., Bermuda); Belloc, 

 Rev. des Trav. Peches Marit., 7 Fasc. 2, 1934: 132 (ill. after Lesueur; Canaries, Madeira). 



Prionodon obvtlatus Valenciennes, in Webb and Berthelot, Hist. Nat. Canaries, 1844: 103, pi. 26 (descr. 

 applicable to obscurus, but ill. not recognizable; Canaries spec). 



Squalus (Carcharinus) obscurus Gray, List. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1 851: 47 (N. Amer.). 



Ptatyfodon obscurus Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1864: 262 (east. Amer.). 



Carcharias {Prionodon) obvclatus Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1865: 376 (redescr., applicable to obscurus 

 except perhaps teeth; Canaries). 



Carcharhinus (Eulamia) obscurus Joidixi, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1885), 1887: 795 (name, N. Amer.). 



Carcharinus obscurus (at least in part) Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 22 (descr. 

 after Lesueur, N. Atlant.) ; Bean, T. H., Rep. For. Comm. N. Y., 1901: 377; Bull. N. Y. St. Mus., 

 60, Zool. 9, 1903: 25 (descr., perhaps confused with other species; reported abund., N. Jersey, 

 no doubt milberti); Fowler, Rep. N. J. Mus. (1906), 1907: pi. 72 (ill., after Lesueur); Sharp 

 and Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 56, 1907: 505 (Nantucket spec, ident. accepted be- 

 cause of large size, II ft. 6 in.) ; Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 36, 191 3: 130 (descr.. Buz- 

 zards Bay spec.) ; Sumner, Osburn and Cole, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 31 (2), 1913: 735 (probably partly 

 obscurus because of loc, Woods Hole, but refers no doubt to milberti chiefly) ; Nichols, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. nat. Hist., 57, 1917: 873 (discuss.); Copeia, 140, 1922: 21 (compares with milberti, from 

 photographs, but mid-dorsal ridge said to be absent, Woods Hole) ; Meek and Hildebrand, Field 

 Mus. Publ. Zool., J 5 (i), 1923: 46 (descr., N. and mid. Atlant., no definite loc); Bigelow 

 and Welsh, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 40 (i), 1925: 29 (descr. and ill., but Gulf of Maine records 

 probably were Prionace glauca); Barnard, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 21 (i), 1925: 25 (spec, Table Bay, 



5. Afr.); Nichols, Copeia, 140, 1925: 21 (comparison with other species); Thorne, Bull. N. Y. zool. 



126. Owing to the fact that other species, especially C. milberti, have frequently been reported as obscurus, the 

 following list is limited to such references as can be referred to the latter with some confidence from included 

 evidence. 



