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waters by a form (or forms) so close that It probably cannot be distinguished specifically 

 (see discussion, p. 527). 



Occurrence in the Western Atlantic. The only reports of it in the western Atlantic 

 are of one that drifted ashore at Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Cod, in 

 December, 1878,* and of a second, 2V2 meters long, taken near Buenos Aires more re- 

 cently." 



Synonyms and References: 



I. North Atlantic and Mediterranean: 



Le boucle, Broussonet, Mem. Math. Phys. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1780: 672 (descr.). 



Squalus brucus Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Meth. Ichthyol., 1788: II (descr., size, N. Atlant.). 



Squale boucle, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 4° ed., j, 1798: 167, 283, pi. 3, fig. 2 (descr., ill.) ; in Sonnini, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., 4, 1802: 123 (from Lacepede, 1798). 



Squalus spnosus Gmelin, in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., / (3), 1788: 1500 (by ref. to Broussonet, 1 780) ; Walbaum, 

 P. Artedi Genera Pise. Emond. Ichthyol., 5, 1792: 519 (refs.) ; Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 

 1801: 136 (refs.); Bosc, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 21, 1803: 192 (diagn.) ; Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 

 Nat., 24, 1804: 72 (in table of contents); Risso, Ichthyol. Nice, 1810: 42 (descr., size, Medit.) ; 

 Strickland, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 4, 1840: 315 (Yorkshire, England); also, Calcutta J. nat. Hist., 

 I, 1840: 285; Gatcombe, Zoologist, (3) i, 1877: 108 (size, stomach contents, off Plymouth, England). 



Echinorhinus sfinosus Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 1816: 121 (name); in Vieillot, Faune Franc, 

 1825: 66, pi. 16, fig. I, 2'° (descr.) ; Bonaparte, Fauna Ital. Pesc, 5, 1835: plate not numbered (descr., 

 iU., Medit.) ; Mem. Soc. neuchatel. Sci. nat., 2 (8), 1839: 9 (spelled Echinorrhinus in synopsis) ; YarreU, 

 Brit. Fish., SuppL, 2, 1839: 54 (descr., ill., teeth, denticles, Brit, record) ; Muller and Henle, Plagiost, 

 1841: 96 (descr.), pi. 60 (dermal denticles); Yarrell, Brit. Fish., 2, 1841: 532 (descr., Brit, records); 

 Hamilton, Brit. Fish., 2, 1842: 317, pi. 28 (descr., Gt. Brit.), also subsequent eds.; Bonaparte, Cat. 

 Pesc. Europ., 1846: 16 (in list); Machado, Feces Cadiz, 1847: 8 (off Cadiz); Cocks, Ann. Mag. nat. 

 Hist., (2) 5, 1850: 71 (south coast, England) ; Gray, List Fish. Brit. Mus., 7, 1 85 1 : 78 (refs., Medit., 

 S. Afr.); Smith, Zoologist, 9, 1851: 3057 (Scotland) ; White, List. Spec. Brit. Mus., Fish., 8, 1 851: 132; 

 Costa, Fauna Napol. Pesci Cat. Sist. Condrott., in pt. 3, 1854-1857: 6 pp., pi. 16, pi. 17, fig. I, 2 (descr., 

 best ill., near Naples) ; Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., r, 1865: 459, pi. 12, fig. 16-20 (denticles, descr.; see 

 Pacif. refs., p. 531) ; Bocage and Brito Capello, Poiss. Plagiost., 1866: 35 (Portugal) ; Gray, Ann. Mag. nat. 

 Hist., (4) I, 1868: 76 (Cornwall); Brito Capello, J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, 2, 1870: 148 (Portu- 

 gal) ; Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 8, 1 870: 428 (refs., descr., Cornwall, Medit., see also S. Afr. refs., 

 p. 531) ; Canestrini, in Cornalia, et al.. Fauna d'ltal., 5, 1871— 1872: 42 (Medit.) ; Jackson and Clarke, 

 J. Anat. Lond., 10, 1876: 75 (brain and spinal nerves, Cornwall); Trois, Atti 1st. veneto, (5) 5, 

 1876-1877: 1 179 (Adriatic) ; Gervais and Boulart, Poiss., j, 1877: 214, pi. 83 (descr., ill.) ; Doderlein, 

 Prosp. Metod. Pesci Sicil., 1878: 30 (Sicily); Goode and Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. Salem, 11, 1879: 31 

 (Provincetown, Massachusetts, record); Stossich, Boll. Soc. adriat. Sci. nat., 5, 1 880: 70 (Adriatic); 

 Day, Fish. Gt. Brit., 2, 1880-1884: 323, pi. 162, fig. 2 (descr., ill., Brit, records); Doderlein, Man. 

 Ittiol. Medit., 2, 1881: 104 (records from Medit.);'' Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. France, i, 1881: 365 

 (descr., ill., teeth, denticles, coasts of France) ; Perugia, Elenc. Pesc. Adriat., 1881 : 54 (Adriatic) ; More, 

 Zoologist, (3) 6, 1882: 434 (Ireland); Rochebrune, Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, (4) <5, 1882: 48; Faune 

 Senegambie, Poiss., J, 1883-1885:25 (Senegambia) ; Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 16, 1883: 

 14 (old C. Cod record); Jordan, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1885), 1887: 793 (distrib.) ; Carus, Prod. 

 Fauna Medit., 2, 1889-1893: 501 (Medit.); Goode and Bean, Smithson. Contr. Knowl., jo, 1895: 8, 

 pi. 3, fig. 9; also Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 22, 1896 (descr., ill., old C. Cod record) ; Nobre, Ann. 

 Sci. nat. Porto, 2, 1 895: 225 (Portugal) ; Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 



8. Goode and Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. Salem, /r, 1879: 31. 



9. Berg, Com. Ictiol., Comm. Mus. nac. B. Aires, i (i), 1898 : 10. 10. We have not been able to see this plate. 



II. See Doderlein for additional Mediterranean records in publications not accessible to us. 



