FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 37 



Genus PORODERMA Andrew Smith 



Poroderma Andeew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 85. (Type, Squalus 

 africanns Gmelin, designated by Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1908, p. 53.) 



Conoporodcrma Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 234, 

 1D34. (Type, Scyllium. panthcrwum Miiller and Henle, orthotypic.) 



Body rather stout, cavity more than half total length. Head less 

 than one-fourth total. Snout short, longer than mouth, depressed, 

 blunt. Eye small, lower lid with very slight fold. Mouth short, 

 wide; labial folds at mouth angles only on lower jaws. Teeth small, 

 tricuspid. Nostrils without grooves to mouth; front valves short, 

 widely separated, not reaching mouth, with strong cirrus; hind 

 valves wide, short. Gill openings moderate, narrow, last above pec- 

 toral. Spiracle moderate, behind eye. Scales small, tricuspid, median 

 cusp elongate, acute. First dorsal behind ventrals, second dorsal 

 smaller than first dorsal or anal. 



South Africa. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ CoNOPORODEEMA. Nasal cirrus long, reaches mouth. 



b\ Gray, with oval or circular more or less complete dark ocellate markings, 



arranged more or less as longitudinal bands pantherinum 



b". Olive-brown above, with large close-set black sjyots, none larger than eye, 



also extend on fins including lower surfaces of paired ones marleyi 



a^ Poroderma. Nasal cirrus shorter, not reaching mouth ; pale gray to buff, 

 with longitudinal blackish bands, one median on back, 2 or 3 lateral. 



africanum 

 Subgenus Conoporoderma Fowler 



Nasal cirrus long, reaches mouth. Coloration largely with dark 

 spots. 



PORODERMA PANTHERINUM (Muller and Henle) 



Scyllium pantherinum Mjjt.t.fk and HenLe, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 13, pi. 

 7, fig., 1841 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope ) .—Andrew Smith, lUustr. 

 Zool. South Africa, Fishes, pi. 29, fig. 3, 1849 (near Algoa Bay).— Gray, List 

 Fish British Museum, p. 31, 1851 (Cape Seas; Smith's specimen).— 

 DuMfiRiL, Hist. Nat. Ehismobr., vol. 1, p. 322, 1865 (Cape of Good Hope).— 

 Blbeker, Verb. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 18, p. 1, 1879 (Mauritius). 



Scyllium, africanum var. panthcrina Gl'nthee, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, 

 p. 406, 1870 (type). 



Poroderma pantlierimim Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 85 

 (Cape of Good Hope) (name only). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 

 36, p. 70, 1913 (South Af rica ) .—Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1925, p. 180 (Cape trawl, 140 fathoms; Tugela River, 60 fathoms; Natal 

 coast, 34 fathoms) ; vol. 85, p. 234, 1934 (reference). 



Scyliorhinus panthcrinus Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 456, 1908 

 (South Africa; types of Scyllium variegatum Muller and Henle). 



ScylUorhinus pantherinus Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 

 p. 284, 1916 (references).— Baknard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, 

 p. 40, pi. 2, fig. 5, 1925 (False Bay to Algoa Bay) ; pt. 2, p. 1013, 1927 (note). 



