Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 303 



Scoliodon eumeces Fowler, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 56, 1919: 249 (trop. W. Afr.). 



Scoliodon acutus Fowler, Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (i), 1936: 46; not Carcharias acutus Ruppell, 1835. 



Probable Synonyms and References: 



Squalus forosus Yoty, Memorias, 2, i860: 339, 452, pi. 19, fig. 1 1, i 2 (teeth, Cuba).'" 



Scoliodon forosus Poey, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 2, 1868, 452; An. Soc. esp. Hist, nat., 5, 1876: 396; Enum- 

 erat. Pise. Cubens., 1876: 200 (Cuba); Fowler, Fish Culturist, 21 (9), 1942: 66 (size of mature fe- 

 male, and embryos, Cuba) ; Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1 930: 15 

 (Cuba); Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 55, 1931: 391 (Trinidad). 



Doubtful References: 



Squalus pinctatui Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N.Y., 1815: 483 (near New York); not Squalus functatus 

 Bloch and Schneider, 1801. 



Lamna functata (in part) Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci., N. S. 2, 1846: 504 (this appears to be a com- 

 bination of Squalus functatus Mitchill with Lamna nasus) . 



Lamna pinctata Llnslcy, Amer. J. Sci., 47, I 844: 76 (name only, Connecticut). 



Ap-ionodon functatus Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1 861 : 59 (in synopsis). 



Carcharias forosus Goeldi, Bol. Mus. Paraense, 2, 1898: 488 (Brazil). 



Carcharias (Scoliodon) walbenii Osorio, J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, (2) 5, 1 898: 200 (C. Verde, St. 

 Thome); Metzelaar, Trop. Atlant. Visschen, 1919: 186 (C. Verde); not Carcharias (Scoliodon) 

 walieehmi Bleekcr, 1856. 



Carcharias longurio Engelhardt, Zool. Anz., 39, 1912: 648 (St. Thomas, W. Indies); not Carcharias (Scolio- 

 don) longurio Jordan and Gilbert, I 888. 



Probably not Scoliodon forosus Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 36, 1 91 3: 112 (descr., Cuba).^"* 



Genus Aprionodon Gill, 1861 



AfrionodonG\U,Tioc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1861: 59; Ann. N. Y. Lye, 7, 1862: 400, 401, 41 1; 

 substitution for Afrion Miiller and Henle, 1841, preoccupied by Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1 830, for 

 bony fishes, and by Audinet-Serville 1839, for insects; type species, Afrionodon functatus Gill, equals 

 Carcharias (Afrion) isodon Miiller and Henle, 1841.' 



Generic Synonyms: 



Carcharias (in part) Ruppell, Neue Wirbelt. Abyssinia, Fische, 1835: 65; and subsequent authors; not Car- 

 charias Rafinesque, I 8 1 0. 



Afrion Muller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841: 31; type species, Carcharias (Afrion) brevifinna Muller and 

 Henle, Java; not Afrion Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1 8 30, for bony fishes. 



Squalus (in part) Gray, List Fish. Brit. Mus., I 85 1 : 41 ; not Squalus Linnaeus, 1758. 



Carcharhinus (in part) Jordan, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1885), 1887: 796; not Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816. 



Longmania Whitley, Aust. Zool., p, 1939: 231; type species, Carcharias (Afrion) brevifinna Muller and 

 Henle, 1841. 



19. Porosus is classed as a probable synonym of terrae-novae on the strength of Poey's descriptions of it and 

 his illustrations of its teeth. Although a pliotograph of an unpublished drawing by him of the lower side of its 

 head fails to show any labial furrows on the lower jaw, this may have been an oversight. 

 19a. Probably a Carcharhinus, not a Scoliodon, because described as with weakly serrated teeth and wider gill open- 

 ings. The specimen on which he based his account is no longer in existence. 

 I. Of the two species included by Gill (1861), Carcharias (Afrion) isodon Muller and Henle must necessarily be 

 taken as the type and not Squalus functatus Mitchill, 1815, which was designated by Jordan (Genera Fish., 3, 

 1919: 303), because Afrionodon was obviously a substitution for Afrion. Furthermore, the name Squalus 

 functatus, having been long antedated by Bloch and Schneider (1801), would not be available in the present 

 connection. 



