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Genus LAMNA Cuvier 



Lamna Cuvieb, Regne Animal, vol. 2, ii. 126, 1817. (Type, Lamna cornulica 



Cuvier= Sqiuilus cornubicus Gmelin, designated by Gill, Ann. Lyceum Nat. 



Hist. New York, vol. 8, p. 32, 1861.) 

 Lamia (not Edwards, 1771, or Fabricius, 1775) Risso, Hi.st. Nat. Europe Merid., 



Poissons, vol. 3, p. 123, 1826. (Type, Squalus cornuhicus Gmelin, mono- 



typic.) 

 Selanoniiis Fleming, British Animals, p. 169, 1828. (Type, Squalus selonus 



(Walker) Leach, monotypic.) 

 Exolcs GiSTEX, Naturg. Thierreichs, p. ix, 1848. (Type Squalus iiasus Bon- 



naterre, virtually. Exoles Gistel proposed to replace Lamna Cuvier.) 



Body short, stout, back elevated. Snout pointed, prominent. 

 Teeth triangular, pointed, entire, each with small basal cusp each 

 side, sometimes obsolete in young. Gill openings wide. First dor- 

 sal and pectoral somewhat falcate, former behind pectoral base. 

 Second dorsal and anal very small, nearly opposite. 



This genus differs from Isurus in the presence of the small basal 

 cusp each side of the large median cusp. "The appearance of the 

 Porbeagle is even more repulsive than that of the other Sharks. It 

 emits an extremely disagreeable, fetid smell, and the surface of the 

 body, which is yielding and at several spots flabby, acquires a dirty 

 look from the secretion of tough mucus. This is especially copious 

 at all the orifices, and it was this uncle anness, which is shared by the 

 whole phalanx, that suggested the ancient name of Squalus.'''' (Smitt.) 



LAMNA NASUS (Bonnaterre) 



Squalus nasus Bonnaterke, Tableau Encyclop. lehth., p. 10, pi. 85, fig. 350, 1788 

 (no locality) (on Le Nez Broussonet). 



Isurus nasus Gasman, Mem. Mus. Zool., vol. 36, p. 34, 1913 (British Islands, 

 Mediterranean, Western Atlantic, Japan). — Fowleb, Proc. 4th (1929) Pa- 

 cific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 488, 1930 (Atlantic Ocean). — Tanaka, Jap. Fish. 

 Life Colours, No. 19, 1933.— Fowleb, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, vol. 70, 

 pt. 1, p. 32, fig. 5, 1936 (Italy). 



Lamna nasus Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, p. 6, 1907 (reference). — 

 Jordan and Htjbbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 102, 1925 (off Ize). — 

 Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 199, 1934 (reference). 



Squalus glaucus (not Linnaeus) Gunner, Norsk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 

 Trondhjem, vol. 4, pt. 1, 1768. 



Squalus cornuhicus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1497, 1789 (type locality: 

 Cornwall, England). 



Squalus cornuiica CtrviER, Regne Animal, vol. 2, p. 127, 1817 (reference). 



Lamna cornubica Agassiz, Poissons fossiles, vol. 3, p. 287, pi. G, figs. 3a-d, 1836. 

 — MtJLLEni and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 67, 1841 (Atlantic 

 Ocean, Mediterranean, Japan). — Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, 

 Poiss., pt. 15, p. 304, 1850 (Japan). — Blb:ekee, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 

 (Japan), vol. 25, p. 21, 1853 (Japan). — DuMfiEiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 



1, p. 405, 1865 (France, Algeria). — GIjnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 

 8, p. 398, 1870 (Eastbourne, Plymouth, England).— Day, British Fishes, vol. 



2, p. 297, pi. 156, 1880-1884. — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol, 



