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Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 70, pt. 1, p. 31, 1936 (New 

 Jersey). — Roxas and Mabtin, Dept. Agr. Couiru. Manila Techn. Bull. 6, p. 12, 

 1937 (reference). 



Carcharhinus carcharias Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 199, 

 1934 (reference; New Zealand). 



Carcharis lamia Rafinesque, Caratteri animali piante Sicilia, p. 44, 1810 (on 

 Linnaeus). 



Carcharodon verus Agassiz, Poissons fossiles, vol. 3, pi. F, fig. 3, 1836, p. 91. 

 1838 (on "Carcharodon sniithii Miiller and Henle"). 



Carcliarodon capensis Andew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 86, 1837 (type 

 locality: Cape of Good Hope) ; lU. zool. South Africa, Fishes, pi. 4, 1849 

 (Cape of Good Hope). 



Carcharodon sniithii Bonaparte, Mem. Soc. Sci. NeuchStel, vol. 2, p. 9, 1839 (on 

 Smith). 



Carcharodon rondeletii Muixeb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 70, 

 1841 (type locality: Mediterranean, Atlantic, Cape Seas, Pacific Ocean). — 

 Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 61, 1851 (Cape Seas). — Dum^ril, Hist. 

 Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 411, pi. 7, fig. 7, 1865 (teeth) (America, Algeria). — 

 Gunthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol 8, p. 392, 1870 (Cape Seas; Port 

 Fairey ?, Australia).' — Heotor, Colonial Mus. Governm. Surv. Dept. (Fishes 

 New Zealand), p. 78, 1872. — Klunzinger, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 

 math-nat. CI., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 426, 1880 (Australia).— Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, pt. 1, p. 96, 1880 (Port Jackson) .—Macleay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 358, 1881 (Australian Seas, 

 Port Jackson). — McCoy, Prodromus Zool. Victoria, dec. 7, pi. 74, 1883. — 

 Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 5, 1888 (Port Jackson) ; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 1771, 1888 (New South Wales 

 to Broken Bay). — Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, p. 43, 1890 

 (reference). — Gitnther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 485, 1910 (between 

 Polynesia and western South America). — Quijada, Boll. Mus. Nac. Chile, 

 vol. 5, pt. 1, p. Ill, 1913 (Chile). 



Carcharias atwoodl Storer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 72, 1848 

 type locality: Provincetown, Mass.). 



Depth 4% to subcaiidal origin; head 4, width 1%. Snout 3% in 

 head ; eye 12i/^, 3i/4 in snout, about 4% in interorbital ; mouth width 

 2% in head, length 1% its width ; teeth in 26 rows above, 24 below, in- 

 ternarial 1% in preoral, which 4I/4 in head; interorbital 2%, rather 

 low. Third gill opening 2%, deepest, interspace between first and 

 second broadest, last 2 closest. 



Scales small, tricarinate. 



First dorsal inserted close behind pectoral base, front edge li^ in 

 head; second dorsal base entirely before anal base, fin length 5%; anal 

 length 5% ; subcaudal length I14 ; ventral length 2% ; pectoral length 

 equals head to second gill opening, width 21/3 its length, reaches 

 V/s to ventral; upper caudal lobe slightly longer than head to first 

 gill opening. 



Back slaty brown, shading to white on sides and beneath. Black 

 spot in pectoral axil, followed by white on body and fin. Fins dark- 

 ened backward except ventrals, which olive on front portions and 

 elsewhere white. Length, 2163 mm. (Garman.) 



