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Halaelurus Mvius Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 86, 1913 (Chile). — 



Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 485, 1930 (reference). 

 Scyllium brevicolle Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, vol. 71, p. 558, pi. 7, fig. 5, 1887 



(type locality: Valparaiso, Chile). 

 Scyllium gayi Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, vol. 71, p. 558, 1877 (type locality: 



Chile). 

 Scyllhim Chilense (not Guichenot) Vaiixant, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Poiss., p. 10, 



pi. 1, figs. 1, a-f, 1888 (Orange Bay). 

 Scylliorlmnis chilensis Smitt, Svonska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 24, p. 72, 1898. 



Depth 8l^ to subcaudal origin, body shorter than tail; head 5, 

 width 1%. Snout 2% in head; eye 4%, 2% in snout, 21/^ in inter- 

 orbital ; mouth width 214 in head, length I14 its width, upper labial 

 fold slightly less than half upper jaw length, lower slightly shorter; 

 teeth simple narrow cusps; nostrils with 2 valves, front valve not 

 reaching mouth, without cirri, internarial 3I/2 in head; interorbital 

 low, depressed, width 3. Gill openings equidistant, last 2 above 

 pectoral base. Spiracle small, close behind eye. 



Scales minute, tricuspid. 



First dorsal little smaller than second, front edge II/2 in head, 

 origin over last basal third of ventral; second dorsal inserted over 

 middle of anal length, front edge I14 in head; anal small, base little 

 longer than second dorsal base, front edge 2l^ in head ; caudal 4^/^ in 

 rest of body, subcaudal high as anal, notch at last fifth its length; 

 pectoral width 1% its length, which reaches -% to ventral or li/io i^^ 

 head; ventral length IViq. 



Grayish brown. Back with ill-defined darker cross bands and 

 scattered light spots. Dark and light spots also on fins. Length, 

 750 mm. (Vaillant; Garman.) 



Originally credited to the Cape of Good Hope, the type in the 

 British Museum. As the species has not since been reported there 

 most writers have assumed its habitat to be off Chile and Patagonia. 



HALAELURUS BiJRGERI (MuUer and Henle) 



Scyllium Mrgeri Mulleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 8, pi. 2, 

 1841 (type locality: Japan). — Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Pisces, 

 pt. 15, p. 301, 1850 (bays of southwest Japan).— Gray, List Fishes British 

 Mus., p. 30, 1851 (reference). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., vol. 25, 

 p. 21, 1853 (Japan) ; vol. 26, 18.57, p. 42 (Japan) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-N6erl., 

 No. 5, vol. 1, p. (8) 69, 1856 (Amboina) ; vol. 2, No. 7, p. 9, 1857 (Amboina) ; 

 vol. 3, No. 3, p. 3 (Kioesio), p. 7 (Japan), 1858; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. 

 Indie, vol. 16, p. 209, 1858 (Batjan).— Dumeeil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, 

 p. 320, 1865 (Japan).— Kner, Reise Norara, Fische, p. 412, 1865 (Madras).— 

 GuNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 404, 1870 (Japan, Formosa, 

 Amboyna). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. O.st-Asien, vol. 1, p. 409, 1876 (Na- 

 gasaki; Amboina). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 616, 1895 (Currimao, 

 Luzon, Ilocos). 



Scyllium hiirgerU Weber, in Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Australia, vol. 5, p. 

 276, 1895 (Ambon). 



