36 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SCYLIORHINUS TORAZAME (Tanaka) 



Catulus torazame Tanaka, Journ. College Sci. Tokyo, vol. 23, p. 6, pi. 2, fig. 2, 

 1908 (type locality: Misaki, Sagami). — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 26, p. 77, 1913 (Misaki).— Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, no 8, 1933. 



Halaelurus torazame Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 5, p. 87, 1912. — Izuka and 

 MAT8UXJK.V, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 190, 1920 (Awo- 

 mori).— Schmidt, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1930, p. 18 (225), figs. 

 1-2 (clasper structure) (Tokyo, Fusan, Misaki; Nystrom's example). 



Halaelurus torazama Schmidt, Copeia, 1930, no. 2, p. 48, figs. 1-3 ; Trans. Pacific 

 Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, p. 4, 1931 (Misaki; Fusan). 



Scyliorhinus torazame Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 

 484, 1930 (reference). 



Scyllkim laticeps (not Dumeril) Nystkom, Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 13, 

 pt. 4, p. 49, 1887 (Japan). 



ScyUiorhtnus rudis Pietschmann, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 45, p. 133, 1908 

 (type locality: Japan). 



Ssyliorhinus rudis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 457, 1908 

 (compiled). — Pietschmann, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 117, pt. 1, p. 699, pi. 1, fig. 3, figs. 9-14 (head, teeth, etc), 1908 (Japan). 



Halaelurus rudis Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 1, p. 13, fig. 12, 1911. — Snydeb, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 400, 1912 (Hakodate). 



Depth 634 to subcaudal origin; head 5%, width II/5. Snout 2% 

 in head; eye 5I/25 2 in snout; mouth width 1% in head, crescentic, 

 upper labial groove % eye diameter or I/3 length of lower groove; 

 teeth numerous, rather small, tricuspid, equal in jaws; nostrils large, 

 separate, nearer eye than snout tip, not confluent with mouth, least 

 internarial width i/^ eye; front nasal valve large, occupies inner 

 % of nostril, overlapped another valve on posterior border of nostril 

 about % length of anterior; interorbital 2 in head. Gill openings 

 small, last ones little more widely spaced, last 2 above pectoral base. 

 Spiracle moderate, posterior to eye almost its own width. 



Skin very rough; each scale with long central cusp and pair of 

 short lateral cusps. 



First dorsal inserted midway in total length or opposite hind basal 

 ventral edge, front fin edge 1% in head ; second dorsal origin slightly 

 before hind basal anal edge, front fin edge 1% in head; anal origin 

 behind first dorsal base or little nearer subcaudal origin than ventral 

 origin, front fin edge 2 in head; pectoral reaches slightly over half 

 way to ventral, width II/2 its length which lyV in head ; ventral length 

 equals head; caudal 4I/2 in rest of body, front subcaudal edge 1% 

 in head, notch at last fourth in caudal length. 



Brownish or grayish, with irregularly scattered whitish round 

 spots, each Yq to 14 of eye; dark brown blotches with similar spots, 

 somewhat cross-bandlike and form large meshed reticulum by join- 

 ing with one another. All fins, except anal, like body. Anal dusky 

 or brownish (shown nearly uniform). Under surfaces pale. Length, 

 449 mm. (Tanaka.) 



Japan, Korea. 



