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Odontaspis tricuapidatus Day, Fishes of India, SuppL, p. 810, 1888. — Day, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 27, fig. 8, 1889.— Stead, Fishes of Australia, 

 p. 233, 1908. — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 19, fig. 24, 

 1921.— McCuixocH, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 8, pi. 2, fig. 21b, 

 1927. 



Odontaspis tricuspitatus Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 

 8, p. 241, fig. 12, 1932 (Chefoo). 



Carcharias cuspidatus Ogiuby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 

 3, p. 1767, 1888 (note on 2 half grown) (error). 



Odontaspis americamis (not Shaw) Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., 

 vol. 2, p. 43, 1890 (reference). 



Odontaspis taiirus (not Rafinesque) Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, 

 pt. 1, p. 36, 1925 (part). 



Depth 5 to subcaudal origin; head 334, width li/^. Snout 3% in 

 head; eye 9I/2, 2% in snout, 7 in interorbital ; mouth cleft 2% in 

 head, ll^ in mouth width ; teeth in 32 to 34 rows above, 30 to 34 rows 

 below, large, awl-shaped, smooth, small basal cusp each side; fourth 

 upper tooth each side of symphysis much smaller than those next; 

 lower median tooth either side of symphysis slender; nostrils nearer 

 mouth than snout end, internarial equals preoral length ; interorbital 

 moderately high, width 1% in head. Gill openings subequal, last 

 before pectoral base. 



Front edge of first dorsal l%o ""^ head; of second dorsal l%o; of 

 anal 214, origin below first basal third of second dorsal ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 4i/^ in head; pectoral li/^, width 2i^ in fin, which 

 1% to ventral; ventral length 1%, origin below last fourth of first 

 dorsal base; caudal 2I/3 in rest of body, subcaudal length 3% in fin. 



Brown above, dull white below. Length, 3,735 mm. (Day.) 



South Africa, India, Indochina, New South Wales, South Austra- 

 lia. Day says it reaches 6,100 mm. (20 feet) and that his figure was 

 made from a skin, described above. 



CARCHARIAS OWSTONI Garman 



Carcharias owstoni Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 24, 1913 (type 

 locality: Japan). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 589, 

 1930 (Nagasaki) ; Hong Kong Nat, vol. 1, p. 87, 1930 (China) ; Proc. 4th 

 (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 487, 1930 (reference). 



Odontaspis americanus (not Shaw) Petees, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, 

 p. 926 (Ningpo). 



Body fusiform, robust; head depressed. Snout medium, rather 

 pointed, broader than deep; eye small, 14 preoral length of snout; 

 mouth large, length % its width, outline broadly rounded in front; 

 upper labial fold rudimentary, mere gash hidden by lip ; lower labial 

 fold nearly y^ jaw length; teeth small, lanceolate, slender, 2 rooted, 

 first upper little smaller than second from middle, fourth upper very 

 small and followed by vacant space, first lower small, bases without 

 denticles at sides of cusps; nostrils transverse, nearer mouth than 



