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Sfinax vulgaris Guichenot, Explor. Alger. Poiss., 5, 1 850: 125 (Algeria). 



Squalus americanus Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1 864: 263 (east coast, U.S.); Abbott, Rep. N. J. 

 geol. Surv., App. E, 1868: 824 (common, N. Jersey). 



Acanlhias linnet Malm, Goteborgs och Bohuslans Fauna, 1877: 624 (commercial catch, Sweden). 



Dog Fish, Collins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 2, 1883: 8 (in winter off N. Hampshire); Gallup, Bull. U.S. 

 Fish Comm., 2, 1883: 246 (util., Maine); Collins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 4, 1884: 248 (preying on 

 mackerel); Stevenson, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1902), 1904: 228 (size, util.) ; Evermann, Rep. U.S. 

 Comm. Fish. (1903), 1905: 114 (abund., no. of embryos, destroying other fish, Gulf of Maine); 

 Atkins, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 2S, 1910: 253 (possible util.) ; Cornish, Contr. Canad. Biol. (1906-1910), 

 1 91 2: 79 (abund., season, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I.) ; Beatty, Rep. Fish. Res. Bd. Canad. (1942), 

 1943: 17 (season, abund.. Vitamin A content, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Gulf of St. Lawrence). 



Squalus acanthias or Acanthias vulgaris Prince, Rep. Mar. Fish. Canada (1903), 1904: XLV (abund., de- 

 structiveness). 



Horned Dog Fish, Field, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 28, 1910: 247 (as a food fish). 



Crayfish, Moore, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., Econ. Circ, 22, 1916: (as a food fish, abund.). 



Squalus Nichols and LaMonte, Amer. Mus. Novit., 901, 1913: 4 (eaten by swordfish). 



Squalus barbouri Howell-Rivero, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 41, 1936: 47, pi. 12 (descr., ill., Cuba, ident. 

 by exam, of type spec). 



Doubtful References: 



Sfinox acanthias Bowditch, Excurs. Madeira, 1825: 74 (Porto Santo, nominal only, may equally have 



referred to S. blainville) . 

 Acanthias vulgaris Vincent, Sea Fish. Trinidad, 1910: 53 (common, Trinidad, nominal only, more likely 



to have referred to the newly discovered S. cubensis, p. 473). 

 Probably not Squalus acanthias Evermann and Bean, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1896), 1 898: 239 (abund. Indian 



R., Florida) ; Evermann and Kendall, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1899), 1 900: 49 (Indian R., Florida)." 



2. North Pacific: 



Acanthias vulgaris Bleeker, Verh. batavia. Genoot., 25 (7), 1853: 21 (name only, Japan); Verh. batavia. 

 Genoot., 26 (4), 1857: 44 (name only, Japan); Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1870: 418; 

 Nystrom, Bih. Svensk. Vet. Acad. Handl., Stockholm, 13 (4), 1887: 50 (name only, Japan); Ishikawa 

 and Matsuura, Prel. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897: 61 (name only, Japan) ; not Acanthias vulgaris Tem- 

 minck and Schlegel, in Siebold, et al., Fauna Japan Pisces, 4 (15), 1850: 304, pi. 135 (this is probably 

 jernandinus; see discussion, p. 454). 



S-pinax {Acanthias) suckleyi Girard, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 7, 1854: 196 (descr., Puget Sound). 



Acanthias sucklii Girard, Pacif. R. R. Surv. Fish., 10, 1 858: 368 (descr., color, Puget Sound). 



Acanthias suckleyi Suckley, Pacif. R. R. Survey, 12 (2), i860: 367 (descr., size, embryos, abund., util., Puget 

 Sound). 



Squalus suckleyi (or sucklii) " Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. ( 1 862) , 1 863 : 499 (refs.) ; Jordan and Gilbert, 

 Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 17 (Pacific coast, U.S.) ; Jordan and Starks, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., (2) 

 5, 1895: 789 (abund., Puget Sound) ; Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 219 

 (name only, Aleutian Is. to Santa Barbara, California) ; Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 47 (l), 1896: 54 (descr., 

 abund., util., Aleutian Is. to Santa Barbara, California) ; Jordan and Gilbert, in Jordan, et al.. Fur Seals and 

 Fur Seal Industr. N. Pacif. Ocean, 3, 1 899: 434, pi. 3 (Bering I.) ; Evermann and Goldsborough, Bull. 

 U.S. Bur. Fish., 26, 1907: 228 (SE. Alaska) ; Starks and Morris, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 3, 1907: 168 

 (off San Diego, California, in deep water) ; Regan, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8) 2, 1908: 46 (in synopsis) ; 

 Starks, Ann. Cameg. Mus., 7, 191 1 : 207 (name only, Puget Sound); Halkett, Check List Fish. Canad., 

 1913: 41 (Brit. Columbia, Aleutians to California); Thompson, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 50, 1916: 420 

 (name only, San Diego, California) ; Hubbs, Copeia, 43, 1 91 7: 37 (stomach contents, California); Starks, 

 Fish Bull. Sacramento, 3, 1917: 152 (ill., abund. northward, size, depth, California to Alaska); 

 Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Cameg. Mus., 10, 1925: 105 (complete list refs.; they point out that ill. by 



57. See footnote 42, p. 463. 58. Spelled sucklii by some authors, suckleyi by others. 



