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Crossorhinus tar'batus Dum^ril, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 5, p. 125, 1853 (Aus- 

 tralia) ; Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 338, 1865 (Australia; not Japan and 

 China). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, no. 4, p. 28, 1869 (South Sea). — 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 414, 1870 (South Australia, 

 New Holland, Tasmania; not Japan). — McCoy, Prodromus Zool. Victoria, 

 dec. 5, pi. 43, fig. 1, 1880. — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 

 5, p. 97, 1880 (Port Jackson). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 6, p. 365, 1881 (Port Jackson, Tasmania, South Australia). — Ogilby, 

 Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 9, 1888 (Port Jackson, Richmond 

 River, Port Stephens). — Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, p. 

 44, 1890 (reference).— Waite, Prelim. Rep. Thetis Exped., p. 39, 1898 (off 

 Newcastle, New South Wales, in 21 to 48 fathoms). 



Orectolobus barbatus Waite, Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, p. 32, 1899 (off New- 

 castle). — Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908, p. 355 (New South Wales, 

 Sydney, Tasmania, South Australia). — Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 232, 

 1908. 



Chiloscyllimn barbatus Macleiay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 

 597, 1883 (reference). 



Bqualus lobatus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 137, 1801 (type locality: New 

 Holland) (on WatVs Shark Phillip, Voy. Gov. Phillip to Botany Bay, p. 285, 

 pi. 53, 1789; Sydney Cove, Port Jackson). — Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1837, p. 86 (reference). 



Chrossorhinus lobatus Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1837, p. 86 

 (reference). 



Bqualus appendiculatus Shaw, Nat. Misc., vol. 17, pi. 727, 1806 (type locality: 

 Antarctic Seas) (on Watt's Sliark Phillip). 



Depth 9y2 to 10 to subcaudal origin; head 4% to 5, width 1 to 

 1%. Snout 2^2 to 2% in head, widely depressed, rounded in profile 

 as seen from above ; eye 9 to 10 in head, with 2 tubercles along upper 

 eyelid, 3% to 4% in snout, 3% to 4% in interorbital ; dentary width 

 2 to 2^ in head, deep groove around each mouth angle though not 

 meeting at symphysis; teeth in 19 or 20 rows above, 16 or 17 rows 

 below, each tooth with long narrow median cusp and sometimes short 

 basal cusp each side, edges of all entire; nostrils close below ends 

 of snout, joined with mouth by short deep nasoral groove; front 

 nasal valves reach teeth, each broadly lobate, separated by narrower 

 preoral lobe, cirrus twice long as valve or equals 1% eye diameters, 

 with short bifid lobe midway on outer edge ; hind nasal valve forms 

 fold on outer side of nostril extending to upper labial fold and a 

 longitudinal fold along side of nasoral groove, free pointed end of 

 which directed toward mouth angle; interorbital 2% in head, de- 

 pressed. Gill openings above pectoral, fourth much longest and 

 close before fifth. Spiracle large, oblique, equals 1% eye diameters, 

 begins opposite hind part of eye. 



Scales minute, triangular, with one or several points and keels. 

 Above upper lip 3 to 5 flattened dermal flaps; behind fold of mouth 

 angle series of 4 or 5 flattened dermal flaps and 2 more on side of 

 pharynx. 



