NO. 1009. JAPANESE SHORE FISHES— SNYDER. 401 



Family SPIIYRXID/E. 



SPHYRNA ZYGiENA (Linnaeus). 



Tokyo market. 



Family ^flTSUKURINID^. 



MITSUKURINA OWSTONI Jordan. 



After examining a figure of this species several fishermen at 

 Mororan stated that it has been taken there. 



Family SQUALID^. 



SQUALUS MITSUKURH Jordan and Snyder. 



Mororan, Tomakomai, and Misaki markets. 



Young examples have a row of wliite spots along the sides, each as 

 long as the pupil. A spot similar to these is on the upper surface 

 near base of first dorsal spine, another a little beyond base of fin, and 

 a third below base of second spine. 



ETMOPTERUS LUCIFER Jordan and Snyder. 



Reported by fishermen as being occasionally caught near Mororan. 

 Family SQUATINID^. 



SQUATINA JAPONICA Bleaker. 



Many large examples in the Tokyo market were said to have been 

 caught b}' local fishermen. 



Family NARCOBATID^. 



NARKE JAPONICA (Temminck and Schlegel). 



^lisaki and Kagosliima markets. Said to be rarely seen. 

 Family RAJID.E. 



RAJA MEERDERVOORTI Bleeker. 



Otaru, Mororan, and Hakodate markets. 



DISCOBATUS SINENSIS (Bloch and Schneider). 



Tokyo market. 



Family DASYATID^. 



DASYATIS AKAJEI (Muller and Henle). 



Otaru, Shiogama, Tokyo, and Msaki markets. 



One example has two strong spines in the tail, one immediately 

 behind the other; the back without thorny spines. 



Color m life: Dorsal surface gray, growmg yellowish toward the 

 edges of (hsk; edges of snout, a narrow region below eyes, sides of 

 tail, and edges of ventrals orange; ventral surface dead wliite, with 

 six misymmetrically arranged orange spots on the belly; edge of disk 

 on under side, including snout and ventrals, bright orange. 



PTEROPLATEA JAPONICA Temminck and Schlegel. 



Tokyo market. 



UROLOPHTJS FUSCUS Garman. 



Tokyo market. 



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