Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 399 



Occurrence in the Western A tlantic. Positive records for -porosus are from Bahia, Per- 

 nambuco, Marajo Island at the mouth of the Amazon; British, Dutch and French Guiana; 

 Trinidad; Colon; and from the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico."' Evidently it ranges 

 generally throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean region, and southward as far as 

 central Brazil. 



Synonyms and References: 



Carcharias -porosus Ranzani, Nov. Comment. Acad. Sci. Inst. Bonon (Bologna), 4, 1839: 8, pi. 2 (descr., 

 color, excellent ill., Brazil); Boulenger, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (6) 20, 1897: 298 (Marajo I., Brazil); 

 Goeldi, Bol. Mus. Paraense, 2, 1898: 488 (Marajo I., Brazil) ; Ribeiro, Ann. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 14, 

 1907: 153, 200 (descr., Brazil, refs.) ; Pellegrin, Poiss. Guyana Franc, Rev. Colon., 67, 1908: II 

 (French Guiana); Ribeiro, Fauna brasil. Peixes, 2 (1) Fasc. I, 1923: 11 (descr., Brazil). 



Carcharias {Prionodon) henlei Miiller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841: 46,"° pi. 19, fig. 6 (descr., ill. of 

 teeth, Cayenne); Miiller and Troschel, in Schomburgk, Reisen Brit. Guiana (1840-1844), 3, 1848: 

 641 (Brit. Guiana) ; Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 1865: 372 (descr., Cayenne). 



Carcharias (Prionodon) -porosus Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 1865: 373 (Brazil, Cayenne); Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, I 870: 365 (Guiana). 



Carcharhinus {Platypodon) henlei Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 216 (Brazil 

 to Guiana) ; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47 (l), 1896: 37 (descr., Brazil to Guiana). 



Carcharhinus cerdale Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 47 (3), 1898: 2746 (descr., 

 Pacif. Panama); Wilson, Ann. Carneg. Mus., to, 1916: 58 (Colombia, Ecuador); Meek and Hilde- 

 brand. Field Mus. Publ. Zool., 15 (l), 1923: 47 (descr., size, embryos, abund., Atlant. and Pacif. Pan- 

 ama) ; Herre, Field Mus. Publ. Zool., 21, 1936: 22 (refs., descr., max. size, Galapagos and at sea). 



Carcharias cerdale Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4, 1904: 10, pi. 2, fig. 4 (Panama Bay); 

 Starks, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 30, 1 906: 762 (Ecuador) ; Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. 

 Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 16 (Panama). 



Carcharinus tnenisorrah (in part) Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 36, 1913: 135 {cerdale incl. In 

 synonymy) ; not Carcharias {Prionodon) menisorrah Muller and Henle, 1 841. 



Carcharinus porosus Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. corap. Zool., 36, 191 3: 131 (descr., W. Indies, Brazil); 

 Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Publ. Zool., 15 (0> 1923: 49 (descr.) ; White, Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. 

 Hist., -^4, 1937: 126 (in Key). 



Eulamia porosus Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., dp, 1917: 127 (Colon); Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 

 ^J) '931- 391 (Trinidad); Arqu. Zool. Estado Sao Paulo, 3, 1942: 128 (listed, Brazil). 



Carcharias henlei Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 16. 



Carcharhinus lamiella Kumada and Hiyama, Mar. Fish. Pacif. Mexico, 1937: 16, pi. 48 (ident. by ill.); not 

 Carcharias lamiella Jordan and Gilbert, 1882. 



Eulamia cerdale Fowler, Monog. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 2, 1938: 249 (listed for Galapagos); Beebe and 

 Tee-Van, Zoologica, N. Y., 26, 1941: 109 (descr., ill., refs., distrib. in Pacif.). 



Doubtful References: 



Carcharias fissidens Bennett, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1830-31: 148 (Atlant. coast N. Afr., see footnote 144, 



P- 398). 

 Carcharhinus henleiY\xyo, Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Toulouse, yo, 1 936: 85, 89, 250 (descr., meas., French Guiana; 

 ident. doubtful since 2nd dorsal is described as "inseree sur le meme plan et au meme niveau que la 

 nageoire anale."). 



145. Stewart Springer, in a personal communication, reports "a nice series of 'cerdale' " taken oflF Biloxi, Mississippi, 

 by himself in August 1943. 



146. If this page was actually distributed in 1838, as it is stated in Jordan and Evermann (Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 

 47 [ill "896: 37) and in Jordan, Evermann and Clark (Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. [1928], 2, 1930: 16) the 

 name henlei would have priority over porosus. Not being in a position to verify this, we credit Muller and 

 Henle's classic work with the date (1841) with which the title page is inscribed. 



