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Heptranchias indicus Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, no. 1, p. 6, 1907 



(reference). 

 Notorhynchus indicus Jordan and Sntdeb, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 37, 1901 



(reference). — Waite, Mom. New South Wales Nat. Club, No. 2, p. 5, 1904. — 



Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 232, 1908. 

 Notorhynchus indicus Tjetz, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, vol. 32, p. 289, 



1908 (South Australia). 

 Heptranchus griseus (not Rafinesque, 1810) Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 



1873, p. 312 (off Flinders Island, Bass Strait). 

 Notorynchus griseus McCxjlloch, Australian Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 3, 1929 



(reference). 

 Notorynchus macdonaldi Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 18, p. 138, pi. 20, 



figs. 3-5, 19.31 (type locality: Manly, New South Wales). — Phillips, New 



Zealand Journ. Sci. Techn., vol. 16, p. 236, fig. 1, 1935 (Oriental Bay). 

 HeptrancMas macdonaldi (Ogilby) Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 18, p. 



139, 1931 (name in synonymy). 



Depth ? ; head 5^^ to siibcaudal origin, width II/5 its length. 

 Snout 214 in head; eye 8^^, 31/2 in snout, 6 in interorbital ; dentary 

 width 1% in head, length li/^ its width, lower labial fold about y^ of 

 lower ramus ; teeth compressed, bases quadrate, cusps narrow, 15 rows 

 above, 13 below; upper teeth with 2 denticles of which inner cusp 

 greatly larger, narrower, each of lower larger and with 5 subequal 

 cusps; nostrils small, about first tliird in preoral length, internarial 

 2% in dentary width ; interorbital 1% in head, broad, slightly convex. 

 Gill openings equidistant, graduated smaller from first which largest, 

 last before pectoral base and less than half first. Spiracle small pore, 

 high, much nearer gill opening than eye. 



Scales quindentate, median point much longest and basally 3 short 

 parallel keels. 



Dorsal origin above hind basal edge of ventral, front edge 1% in 

 head, hind lobe ends in narrow triangular point; anal origin oppo- 

 site middle of dorsal base, front edge 1% in its length which 21/5 in 

 head and ends in short narrow point behind ; caudal about 2I/3 in rest 

 of body, subcaudal lobe 4I/3 in caudal length; pectoral IVjo in head, 

 width 1^ its length ; ventral slightly longer than pectoral, with thick 

 conic claspers reaching far back as end of ventral lobe. 



Brown, paler or lighter uniform brown below. Entire upper sur- 

 face irregularly though finely and obscurely sprinkled with darker 

 spots or specks. Scattered dark spots occur on upper surfaces of 

 paired fins. 



South Africa, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Pata- 

 gonia. My example agrees with Garman's diagnosis of a median 

 tooth in its upper series and the median lower tooth without a median 

 cusp. 



U.S.N.M. No. 39973. Port Jackson, New South Wales. Australian Museum. 

 Length, 1,770 mm. Head and body skinned out. 



