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weighing about 100 pounds, in its stomach. (Jordan and Evermann.) 

 A large pair of jaws is preserved in the museum of the Imperial 

 Universit}^ taken somewhere off the east coast of Hondo, near Misaki. 

 This constitutes the onl}' record of the species from Japan. 



■ {Kapxocpiag, an old name of Carcharim lajida and of other man- 

 eating sharks.) 



Family XI. CETORHINID.E. 



BASKING SHARKS. 



Sharks of immense size with the gill-openings extremely wide, 

 extending from the back nearly to the median line of the throat, all of 

 them in front of the pectorals; mouth moderate, the teeth very small, 

 numerous, conical, without cusps or serratures; no nictitating mem- 

 brane; spiracles \Qvy small, above the corners of the mouth; first dorsal 

 large, midwaj^ between pectorals and ventrals; second dorsal and anal 

 small; caudal fin lunate, the upper lobe considerably the larger; 

 caudal peduncle keeled; pectorals and ventrals large. Brain very 

 small. A single genus, with probably but one species; the largest of 

 living fishes, pelagic, and inhabiting the northern seas. 



21. CETORHINUS Blainville. 



? Tetroras Rakinesqxte, Caratteri, 1810, p. 11 {angiom). 

 C'etorhhms Blainville, Jfnirn. Phys., 1816, p. 264 {gunneri^maxlmits). 

 SelacJw CuviER, Regne Animal, 1st ed., 1817, p. 129 (maximus). 

 Polyprosopiis Couch, Hist. Brit. Fish., I, 1861, p. 67 {rashlcighanus=maximus). 

 Hannovera Van Beneden, Bull. Ac. Ro}'. Beige, XXXI, 1871, p. 504 {aurata, 

 fossil ) . 



The characters of the genus are included above. 



(/c7/rocr, whale; piyi]^ a shark (Squatina), from pi-yy, a file or rasp, 

 the rough skin of this shark being used for polishing wood and 

 marble.) 



23. CETORHINUS MAXIMUS (Gunner). 



UBAZAME (OLD WOMAN SHARK); TECtUZAME (LONG-NOSED SHARK); 

 BAKAZAME (FOOLISH SHARK); ZOZAME (ELEPHANT SHARK). 



Sqiudufi maximus Gunner, Trondhjein, Selskaljskr., HI, 1765, p. .S8; Coast of 



Norway. 

 Sdaclms maxlmiis Stoker, Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 229. 

 SelacJie maximus GiiNTTiEn, Cat. Fish.,yiII, 1870, p. 394. 

 Cetorhlims maximus Jordan and Gilbert, Synopsis, 18S3, )>. .il.— Joudax and 



Evermann, Fish N. M. Amer., I, 1896, p. 51. 

 Squalus gunnerianns Blainville, Jonrn. de Phys., 1810, p. 256 (after Gunner). 

 Squalus pelegrinus BijAiyiviLi.E, Jdurn. de Phys., 1810, p. 257; Europe. 

 Squalus homianus Blainville, .hxirn. de Phys., 1810, p. 257 (after l^verard 



Home) . 

 Cd(yr}iimis xhariamis V,\..\\'s\u.\,K, .lourn. de Phys., ISK!, p. 264 (after Sliaw). 



