FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 35 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Front nasal valve reaches mouth ; first dorsal origin postmedian in body ; 

 back with alternating light cross bands and darker ones with whitish spots. 



capensis 



01 Front nasal valve not reaching mouth ; first dorsal origin before middle in 



body; brown or gray, with irregular, small, whitish, round spots; dark 

 brown blotches with similar spots, somewhat crossbandlike torazame 



SCYLIORHINUS CAPENSIS (Muller and Henle) 



Scyllium capense Mxjller and Henle, Syst. Besehr. Plagiostomeu, p. 11, 1841 

 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope). — Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Loudon, 1837, p. 85 (Cape of Good Hope) (name only). — Bleeker, Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 21, p. (50, 57) 79, 1860 (Cape of Good 

 Hope).— DuMEKiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., p. 320, 1865 (Cape of Good Hope).— 

 Peters, Mouatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 853 (Cape of Good Hope). — 

 Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 724, pi. 190, fig. 1, 1878 ("India") ; Fauna 

 British India, vol. 1, p. 31, 1889. 



Scyliorhinus capensis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 458, 1908 

 (South Africa). 



ScylliorMnus capensis Barnakd, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 40, 

 1925 (Table and False Bays to Natal, in 20 to 200 fathoms). 



Scyliorhimis (Scyliorhinus) capensis Nokman, Discovery Rep., vol. 12, p. 36, 

 1935 (lat. 34°2' S., long. 17°4' E., in 311 m.). 



Catulus capensis Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 74, 1913 (South 

 Africa ) . 



Depth 7V^ to subcauclal origin ; head 614. Snout 2% in head, short, 

 blunt ; eye 6, 2 in snout ; preoral length about % of snout ; mouth gape 

 3% in head, labial folds short, on lower jaw; teeth small, with 1 or 



2 lateral denticles more or less distinct; front nasal valve reaches 

 mouth, broad, with moderate attachment or median separation be- 

 fore symphyses; interorbital moderately high. Gill openings equi- 

 distant, last above pectoral base. 



Scales small, tricuspid. 



First dorsal postmedian in body, behind ventral, front edge 1% 

 in head; second dorsal inserted slightly before hind basal anal edge, 

 front edge !•% in head; anal length 11/5; pectoral II/4, width 214 its 

 length which 2% to ventral origin ; ventral length 1% in head ; caudal 

 5% in rest of body, subcaudal slightly deeper than anal, notch at 

 last third. 



Back with alternating light cross bands and darker ones with whit- 

 ish spots. Lower surfaces uniform light. Length, 1,000 mm. (Day; 

 Garman.) 



South Africa, Natal. Day says: "The only reason for recording 

 this as an Indian species is due to an example at the British Museum 

 being thus marked, and from which the figure is taken. It is stuffed 

 and about 40 inches in length." Regan mentions 6 specimens 600 to 

 1,000 mm. in the British Museum though without reference to Day's 

 specimen. 



