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oral fold and chin covered with modified scales. Dorsals approxi- 

 mated, small, first larger and above ventrals, second smaller than and 

 advanced from anal. Anal near caudal. Caudal large, horizontal, 

 narrow subcaudal without lobe, 

 Indian Ocean and Western Pacific. 



STEGOSTOMA FASCIATUM (Hermann) 



FigueeT 



Squalus fasciattis HEiiMANN, Tab. Affin., p. 302, 1783 (on Squalus varius Seba, 

 Thesauri, vol. 3, p. 105, pi. 34, fig. 1, 1758, no type locality given). — Bloch, 

 Naturg. ausUind. Fische, vol. 1, p. 19, pi. 113, 1785 (Tranquebar). — Walbaum, 

 Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 515, 1792 (on Bloch). — Shaw and Noddeb, Nat. Misc. 

 vol. 11, pi. 434, 1800 (Indian Seas). — Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lon- 

 don, 1837, p. 85 (reference). 



HW.F. 



FiGUEH 7. — Stegostoma fasciatuni (Hermann) : Vai'iation of color pattern in young. 



Scyliorhinus fasciatus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, 1816, p. 121 (name 

 only. ) 



Stegostoma fasciatuni Mi'xxEE and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 24, 

 pi. 7, 1841 (Indian Ocean; Red Sea). — Cantor, Joum. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 

 vol. 18, p. 1378, 1849 (Pinang).— Jerdon, Madras Joum. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, 

 p. 148, 1851.— Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 38, 1851 (Indian Ocean, 

 Madras, India). — Bleekek, Verb. Batav, Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 

 23, 1852 (Samarang) ; (Bengal) vol. 25, p. 9, 1853 (on Pollee makum Rus- 

 sell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 1, p. 11, pi. 18, 1830, Vizagapatam). — Dume- 

 EiL, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 5, p. 128, 1853 (sea of the Indies; Red Sea). — 

 Bleekee, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 22, p. 101, 1860 (Singapore).— 

 Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 35, 1860 (Sandheads, Cal- 

 cutta).— Dum^bil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 336, 1865 (Sea of the 

 Indies; coasts of Madagascar). — Gijnther, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 140, 1806 

 (Aden; Zanzibar). — Peters, Montasb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 281 

 (Malacca). 



Stegostoma fasciatus Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 672, 

 1871 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 511, 

 1891 (reference). 



