w. 1324. ELA8M0BRA NCIIIA TE FISHES— JOBBA N A XB FO WLER. G 1 8 



much nearer anal than pectorals; caudal very long, lower lobe pro- 

 duced. Caudal peduncle rather short. 



Color brown above, whitish or pale below, upper surface marbled or 

 blotched with dark brown. 

 [ Length about 51 inches. 



[ This description from a dried skin, a young male from Nagasaki, 

 icollected by M. Yahiro. 



I East Indies, rarely northward to southern Japan. Dr. Giinther 

 irecords a young specimen from Japan. It is prol)able that com- 

 parison will show that the American species, Galeocerdo maculatiis 

 (Rauzani), is distinct from G. tigrinus. 



{figrinuSy tiger-like.) 



12. PRIONACE Cantor. 



Brlonodon Muller ami IIenle, Plasiostomen, 1S3S, p. ?,6 {glmmia, etc., name 



preoccupied) . 

 Prionare Cantor, Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 399 (suljstitute for Brhmodnn). 

 (hinocephalm (Klein) (till, Ann. Ia'c. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, \^. 401 {i/hinrii.-^). 



I Large sharks, with the body and head slender; no spiracles; the 

 teeth in both jaws strongly seri-ated in the adult, tliose in the upper 

 jaw broad, those below narrower, straight, and claviform; tirst dorsal 

 large, inserted midway between axils of pectorals and ventrals; second 

 dorsal much smaller, usually not larger than anal; embryo not attached 

 to the uterus by a placenta. Species rather few; large, slender, swift, 

 jvoracious sharks of the warm seas. 

 (tt/j/gjk, saw; «r/cz?, point.) 



12. PRIONACE GLAUCA (Linnaeus). 



Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 235; seas of Europe. 

 Carcharias glaucus Gunther, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 364; England, St. Helena, 

 Pondicherry, Port Arthur, Australia.— Dumeril, Elasmobr., 1870, p. 353; New 

 Zealand. 

 Carcharhinus glaucus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 1883, p. 22; San Francisco, 



Monterey. 

 Prmiace glaum JonvAS and Evermann, Fish North and Middle America, I, 1896, 

 ! p. 33; San Francisco, Monterey. 



i Squalus cicruleus BLAiNVihhE, Fauna Fran^aise, 1828, p. 91; Mediterranean. 



Squalus kiruiullnaceus Valenciennes, in Muller and Henle, Pli^iostouien, 18.38, 

 I p. 37; Brazil. 



Snout very long, nostrils rather nearer to mouth than to extremity 

 |)f snout; no labial fold except a groove at angle of mouth; teeth of 

 ipper jaw oblique, scarcely constricted near l)ase; lower t(>cth slender, 

 iriangular in young examples, lanceolate, with a broad base, in old 

 pnes. Pectoral tin long, falciform, extending to dor.sal, which is nearer 

 ^^entrals than root of pectorals. Color light bluish gray above, paler 

 )elow. 



