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nects Greenland with Baffin Land. But it has not been found on the northern (polar) slope 

 of the ridge. 



It is also taken often by halibut fishermen on long lines all along the edge of the North 

 American continent from the south slope of the Grand Bank southward along the Nova 

 Scotian Banks (Banquereau, Sable Island, Lahave, Browns) to the eastern extremity of 

 Georges Bank. But neither the total number of recorded captures nor the personal reports 

 we have received from fishermen suggest more than a comparatively sparse though wide- 

 spread population. How far to the westward and southward it may occur regularly is not 

 yet known. Garman" credited it with ranging as far as New York, but we find no support- 

 ing evidence for this, and while Goode and Bean' characterized a young specimen taken in 

 the northern side of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Alabama, in 1885, as "probably 

 this species," the bottom temperature of the water there was so high (67° F., or 19.4° C. 

 at 210 fathoms) as to suggest that some other small shark actually was in hand. 



Synonyms and References: 



Squalus acanthia! Fabricius, Fauna Groenl., 1780: I 26 (W. Greenland) ; not 5. acanihias Linnaeus, I 758. 



Sfinax fabricii Reinhardt, Overs, danske Vidensk-Selsk. Forh. (i 824-1 825), 1825: 3 (W. Greenland, not 

 seen); Overs, danske Vidensk-Selsk. Forh., 3, 1828: vi (descr., West Greenland, not seen); K. danske 

 Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhand., 7, 1838: 116, 132 (W. Greenland). 



Sfinax acanthias (?) Reinhardt, K. danske Selsk. Naturvid. Math. Afhand., 7, 1838: 116 (W. Greenland, 

 suggests Squalus acanthias Fabricius, 1780, equals Sfinax fabricii Reinhardt, 1828). 



Cenlroscyllium fabricii Muller and Henle, Flagiost., 1 841: 191 (descr., Greenland); Kr0yer, Danmarks 

 Fisk., 3, 1852-1853: 888 (note); Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., Addend., 1861: 60 and later 

 eds. (name); Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 1865: 449, pi. 5, fig. 10 (embryo reported, descr., 

 ill. of scales, Greenland); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1 8 70: 425 (descr., refs., Greenland); 

 Goode and Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. Salem, 11, 1879: 30 (Banks off Massachusetts); Jones, List Fish. 

 Nova Scotia, 1879: 9 (meas.. Nova Scotia Banks); Bean, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., j, 1 881: 1 16 (Iocs, 

 of capture, abund.. Grand Banks and Nova Scotia Banks) ; Hasse, Naturl. Syst. Elasm. besond. Theil, 

 1882: pi. 10 (vertebrae) ; Jones, Proc. N. S. Inst. Sci., 5, 1882: 95 (same as Jones, 1879) ; Jordan and 

 Gilbert, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 16 (descr., off Gloucester, Massachusetts); Bean, Rep. U.S. 

 Comm. Fish. (1882), 1884: 344 (off Woods Hole); Gunther, "Challenger" Rep., Zool., 22, 1887: 

 XL, 6 (depths of capture); Jordan, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1885), 1887: 793 (distrib.) ; Vaillant, 

 Exped. Sci. "Travailleur" and "Talisman," Poiss., 1888: 72 (off Arguin Bank, Morocco, Lat. about 

 20° 44' N.) ; Goode and Bean, Smithson. Contr. Knowl., 50, 1895; Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. 

 Zool., 22, 1896: II, pi. 2, fig. 7 (descr., iU., offshore banks, and perhaps Gulf of Mexico); Jordan 

 and Evermann, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 219 (name. Nova Scotia Banks); Bull. U.S. 

 nat. Mus., 47 (l), 1896: 56 (descr., off Gloucester and Nova Scotia Banks) ; ibid., 47 (4), 1900: pi. 8, 

 fig. 26 (ill.) ; Burckhardt, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7) 6, 1900: 568 (luminescent organs) ; Werner, Zool. 

 Jb., Syst. Abt., 21, 1904: 291 (color, embryo, Greenland); Collett, Rep. Norweg. Fish. Invest., 2 (2), 

 1905: 25 (sizes, embryos, off the Faroes) ; Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., do, 1908: 69 (Georges 

 Bank) ; Kendall, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 7(8), 1 908: 9 (off Gloucester, Massachusetts) ; Regan, 

 Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8) 2, 1908: 40 (taxonomic discus., cf. with other species); Murray and Hjort, 

 Depths of Ocean, 1912: 392 (Faroe-Shedand Channel and Faroe Bank); Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. 

 comp. Zool., 56, 1913: 231, pi. 10, fig. 5-8 (descr., iU., Greenland to N. York); Halkett, Check 

 List. Fish. Canad., 1913: 41 (off Nova Scotia); Jensen, Mindskr. Jap. Steenstrup, 2 (30), 1914: 4 

 (discuss., history, size, embryos, food, depth, south. Davis Strait and SW. Greenland) ; Fowler, Copeia, 



6. Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 36, 1913: 232. 



7. Smithson. Contr. Knowl., 30, 1895 : 1 1 j Albatross Station 2377. 



