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Florida shark fishery. But no information is available as to its percentage in the total. 

 Recently an attack was reported on a bather at Mayport near Jacksonville by a SV2- to 

 6V2-foot shark, which, judging by circumstantial evidence, seems to have been maculi- 

 finnis.^" 



Synonyms and References: 



Isogomfhoion maculifinnis Poey, Repert. Fisico-nat. Cuba, 7, 1865: 191, pi. 4, fig. 2, 3:2, 1866- 



1868: 245, 450, pi. 2, fig. 1-3 (descr., teeth, Cuba); Synop. Pise. Cubens., 1868: 450 (diagn., Cuba); 



Springer, Proc. Fla. Acad. Sci., 5, 1939: 27 (descr., size, color, Florida); Lunz, Bull. S. Carolina St. 



Planning Bd., 14, 1944: 27 (Florida). 

 Carcharias limbatus (in part) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., <?, 1 870: 373 (incl. in synon.) ; Ribeiro, Arch. 



Mus. nac. Rio de J., 14, 1907: 200; Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Coram. Fish. (1928), 2, 



1930: 16 (included in synonymy of limbatus). 

 Platyfodon (?) maculipnnis Poey, Enumerat. Pise. Cubens., 1876: 197, pi. 9, fig. 6 (ill., denticles, Cuba); 



An. Soc. esp. Hist, nat., 5, 1376: 393, pi. 14, fig. 6 (Cuba). 

 Carcharhinus limbatus (in part) Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 47 (l), 1896: 40 ; Garman, 



Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 56, 1913: 127; Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Publ. Zool., 75, 1923: 



41 (included in synonymy of limbatus'). 

 Eulamia maculifinnis Bigelow and Schroeder, Guide Comm. Shark Fish., Anglo Amer. Caribb. Comm., Wash., 



1945: 90, fig. 29 (descr., range, ill.). 



Doubtful References: 



Platyfodon maculifinnis Stahl, Fauna Puerto Rico, 1883: 167 (Porto Rico, name only). 



Eulamia flatyodon Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., ji, 191 9: 146 (Jamaica spec, perhaps maculifinnis 



because teeth narrow and the lowers "entire"). 

 Not Carcharias maculifinnis Gunther, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 6, 1867: 490.'^ 



Carcharhinus milberti (Miiller and Henle), 1841" 



Brown Shark, Sand-bar Shark 



Figures 68, 69 



Study Material. Male, 1,496 mm., taken at Woods Hole in August 1941 (Harv. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 35370) ; male, 1,400 mm., taken at Woods Hole in August 1944 

 (not preserved) J male, 2,000 mm. (about 6 feet 7 inches), from Vineyard Sound near 

 Woods Hole, taken Sept. 18, 1943} jaws (Harv. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 36032)5 head 

 and skin of male, about 800 mm., from Somer's Point, New Jersey (Harv. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., No. 147)} newborn specimens, 562 mm. and 580 mm. (female and male), from 

 Woods Hole (U.S. Bur. Fish.) ; young male, 760 mm., from Chesapeake Bay, 540-mm. 

 specimen, from off Grand Terre, Texas, and one young male, 747 mm., from Virginia 



80. Stewart Springer has supplied us with details of this occurrence, mentioned on page 70 also. 



81. See p. 35Z. 



82. If it is finally proved that the Mediterranean form is identical with the American, the name flumieus Nardo, 

 1827, must be used for the combined species in place of milberti; see discussion, p. 374. 



