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of the coast of North Carolina. In some years {e.g., in 1891) it is taken in some numbers 

 even in winter as far north as Cape Lookout. But it has been recorded only once at the 

 mouth of Chesapeake Bay and not at all within the Bay; and it reaches New Jersey and the 

 vicinity of New York only rarely, four specimens being reliably recorded. Occasional 

 specimens do wander even farther to the northward at rare intervals, for several were taken 

 near Woods Hole in the summer of 1 9 1 6, while the collection of the Harvard Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology contains a specimen taken at Grand Manan Island at the mouth 

 of the Bay of Fundy in 1857 by A. E. Verrill. Early reports of it from Newfoundland 

 are unfounded." 



To the southward it occurs in abundance along the coast of Brazil as far as Rio de 

 Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul, and the collection of the Harvard Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology contains one taken many years ago at Maldonado, Uruguay. But apparently 

 the estuary of the Rio de La Plata marks the southern limit to its usual range in that direc- 

 tion, for it has not been recorded from Argentina. Neither is it known at Bermuda. 



Synonyms and References: 



Squalus (CarcAarias) terraf-novae Richardson, Fauna Boreal. Amer., j, 1836: 289 (locality given as "New- 

 foundland" for specimen received from Audubon, but probably either Florida or South or North 

 Carolina; see footnote 16, p. 301). 



Carcharias (Scoliodon) lalandii Muller and Henle, Plagiost., 1 841: 30 (descr., Rio de Janeiro, Martinique, 

 Guadeloupe); Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1865: 346 (descr., Brazil). 



Lamna terrae-novae (in part)"^' Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., N. S. 2, 1846: 504 (in synopsis). 



ScoUodon lalandii Castelnau, Anim. Nouv. Rares Amer. Sud, 1855: 100 (Brazil); Hasse, Naturl. Syst. 

 Elasm. besond. Theil, 1882: 268, pi. 39, fig. 1-4 (vertebrae); Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. 

 Zool., 36, 1913: 113 (descr.); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 69, 1917: 128 (Colon); Meek 

 and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Publ. Zool., 75, 1 923: 53, pi. 2, fig. 2 (descr., discus., Colon) ; Jordan, Ever- 

 mann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 15 (distrib.) ; White, Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. 

 Hist., 7^, 1937: 129 (in Key) ; Fowler, Arqu. Zool. Estado Sao Paulo, j, 1942: 128 (Brazil). 



ScoUodon terrae-novae Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1861: 59 (class., name); Rep. U.S. 

 Comm. Fish. (1871-1872), 1873: 813 (range); Jordan, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 1882: 245 (Pensa- 

 cola, Florida); Goode and Bean, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 1883: 240 (Gulf of Mexico); Jordan and 

 Gilbert, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 24 (descr., distrib.) ; Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 5, 1883: 581 (abund., 

 S. Carolina); Nelson, Rep. St. Geol. N. Jersey, 2 (2), 1890: 66l (diagn., N. Jersey distrib.); Bean, 



B. A., Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 14, 1891: 94 (C. Charles, Virginia); Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U.S. 

 Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 217 (C. Cod to Brazil); Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 47 (i), 1896: 43 (descr., 



C. Cod to Brazil); Jordan and Rutter, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1897: 91 (Jamaica); Evermann 

 and Bean, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1896), 1898: 239 (Indian R., Florida) ; Gilbert, Proc. Wash. Acad. 

 Sci., 2, 1900: 161 (Brazil); Evermann and Kendall, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1899), 1900: 48 

 (Florida) ; Bean, T. H., Rep. For. Comm. N. Y., 1901 : 378 (distrib.) ; Rep. N. York St. Mus., do, Zool. 

 9, 1903: 29 (descr., general); Jordan and Thompson, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 24, 1905: 232 (Tortugas, 

 Florida); Linton, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., 24, 1905: 342 (food, parasites); Cole and Barbour, Bull. 

 Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., $0, 1906: 155 (Yucatan) ; Fowler, Rep. N. Jersey Mus. (1905), 1906: 63 (N. 

 Jersey) ; Rep. N. J. Mus. (1906), 1907: pi. 74 (ill.) ; Ribeiro, Arch. Mus. nac. Rio de J., 14, 1907: 155, 



16. "This species, with others belonging to the Florida fauna, is said by Richardson to have ijeen brought from New- 

 foundland by Audubon. They doubtless came from some locality in Florida or Carolina" (Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 4.7 [i], 1896: 43; footnote). 



17. This was a combination of Lamna caudata Dekay (equals Carchar/Umu milberti, see p. 376) with ScoUodon 

 terrae-novat Richardson. 



