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Synonyms :°° 



Squalus fernandinus Molina, Saggio Stor. Nat. Chili, 1782: 229 (Chile). 



Squaltis acanthias var. fernandinus Walbaum, P. Artcdi Genera Pise. Emend. Ichthyol., 1792: 505 (Chile). 



Acanthorhinus fernandinus Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 1816: 121 (name only). 



Acanthias blaim>illii Gray, List. Fish. Brit. Mus., 1851: 70 (Cape Seas, S. Afr.) ; not Acanthias blainviiU 



Risso, 1826 (see discussion, p. 454). 

 Spinax fernandezianus Guichcnot, in Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool., 2, 1848: 365; Perez Canto, Estud. Escual. 



Chile, 1886: 10 (descr., Juan Fernandez). 

 Acanthias blainvillei Bleaker, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., 27, i860: 50, 58, 80 (Cape of Good Hope); 



not Acanthias blainville Risso, 1826 (see discussion, p. 454). 

 Acanthias fernandezianus Philippi, Tiburones Chile, 1887: 27, pi. 4, fig. 3 ; An. Univ. Chile, yi, 1887: 559, 



pi. 4, fig. 3 (descr., ill., Juan Fernandez). 

 Squalus blainvillei Delfin, Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat., 4, 1900: 1 10 (Chile) ; not S. blainville Ribeiro, Fauna brasil., 



Peixes, Mus. nac. Rio de J., 2 (l) Fasc. I, 1923: 25, pi. 8 (Brazil); equals Squalus cubensis Howell- 



Rivero, see p. 478. 

 Squalus fernandezianus Delfin, Cat. Feces Chile, igoi : 21 (refs., Juan Fernandez). 

 Squalus acutifinnis Regan, Ann. Natal Mus., 2, 1908: 248, pi. 37 (descr., ill., Mauritius, S. Afr.). 

 Squalus tasmaniensis Howell-Rivero, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 8, 1936: 267, pi. 10, fig. a-e (descr., 

 ill., Tasmania). 



Doubtful Synonyms: 



Squalus fhilifpnus Smith and Radcliffe, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 41, 1912: 677, pi. 51, fig. I (descr., ill., 



Philippines) ; not S. 'philiffinus Shaw, which is a Heterodont. 

 Squalus mitsukurii Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 26, 1903: 630 (descr., but not the ill., fig. 3, 



Japan; see discuss., footnote 20, p. 454). 

 Squalus jafonicush\\\\:iVi:i,VTOC. kc^A. nat. Sci. Philad., 60, 1908:71 ; Tanaka, Fish. Japan, 2(5, 1 91 7: pi. 130, 



fig. 365-367 (Japan). 

 Squalus montalbani Whitley, Aust. Zool., 6, 1931: 310 (substitution for S. fhiliffinus Smith and Radcliffe, 



1912, preoccupied by Shaw, 1804, for a Heterodont). 



References for Western South Atlantic: 



Squalus fernandinus Lahille, Enum. Feces Cartilag. Argent., 1921 : 16 (listed for Argentina) ; Physis B. Aires, 



5, 1921 : 63 (listed for Argentina) ; Ann. Mus. nac. B. Aires, ^4, 1928: 327 (descr. and good ill. of spec. 



from stomach of an albatross, Lat. 34° 44' S., Long. 53° W.) ; Pozzi and Bordale, Ann. Soc. cient. 



argent., 120, 1935: 151 (listed for Argent., Lat. 35° S. to 56° S.) ; not Squalus fernandinus Fowler, 



Arch. Zool. Estado Sao Paulo, J, 1941: 128 (Brazil, by ref. to S. Wj««£'i7/« Schreiner and Ribeiro, 1903, 



which appears to have been cubensis; see discussion, p. 478). 



Probable Reference: 



Squalus blainvillei Lahille, Enum. Feces Cartilag. Argent., 1 921 : 16 (listed for Argentina). 



Genus Centroscyllium Muller and Henle, 1841 



Centroscy Ilium Muller and Henle, Plagiost., 1841: 191: type species, Sfinax fabricii Reinhardt, 1825, mono- 

 typic. West Greenland. 



66. Squalus megalofs Macleay (Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 6, 1881 : 367 and subsequent authors, Aust.) is referred 

 by Garman (Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 36, 1913: 195) and by Fowler (Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 100 [/j], 

 1941 : 261) to the synonymy of fernandinus, but it appears to belong to another division of the genus; see dis- 

 cussion, p. 454. 



