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Cetracion philippi CuviEaj, Rfegne animal, vol. 2, p. 129, 1817 (reference). — 

 Lesson, Voy. CoquHle, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 97, pi. 2 1830 (Port Jackson; 

 Sydney). — Agassiz, Poissons fossiles, vol. 3, p. 8, pi. D, figs. 11-16, 1935. — 

 GUNN, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 108, 1838 (Western Port, Tasmania).— 

 Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 190, 1838. — Vaxenciennes, Regne ani- 

 mal Cuvier, Poissons, ed. ill., pi. 115, fig. 3 (jaws), 1839 (New Holland.) — 

 GuNTHEB, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 415, 1870 (New Zealand, Tas- 

 mania, South Australia.) — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, 

 vol. 1, p. 219, 1872 (Victoria). — Hectoe, Colonial Mus. Governm. Surv. 

 Dept. (Fishes New Zealand), p. 80, 1872 (compiled). — McCoy, Prodromus 

 Zool. Victoria, dec. 12, pi. 113, 1886.— Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 267, 

 1893 (Queensland) — Waite, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 25, Zool., p. 325, 

 pi. 12, figs. 1-2 (egg), 1896. — Kent, Naturalist in Australia, p. 192, fig, 

 2, 1897 (Tasmania, Moretou Bay, Freemantle). 



Cestr action philUpi Mxjixeb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 76, 

 1841 (not plate) (New Holland). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 3, p. 309, 1879.— Kent, Naturalist in Australia, pp. 192. 194. 

 fig., 1897 (Tasmania; Moreton Bay; Freemantle; Spring Bay). 



Cestracion philippii G. Bennett, Gatherings Nat. Australasia, p. 27, fig. 1, 

 1860 (Port Jackson). 



Cestracion phillippi Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 495, 1908 

 (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand?). 



Centracion philippi Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 182, 1913 (New 

 Holland). 



Acanthias philippi Eichwald, De selachis Aristotelis zoologiae, etc., p. 67, 1819 

 (on Schneider). 



Squalus philippinus Shaw, General zoology, vol. 5, p. 341, 1804 (on Port Jack- 

 son Shark Phillip, Voy. Gov. Phillip to Botany Bay, p. 166, pi. 42, 1789, 

 type locality: Botany Bay). 



Cestracion hcterodontus Shekeaed, Illustr. Official Handb. Aquar. Melbourne, 

 pp. 42, 88, figs., 1896 (type locality: Hobson's Bay, Victoria) (not con- 

 sulted). 



Depth 5% to 5% to subcaudal origin; head 4% to 5, width V-^. 

 Snout 1% to 2 in head ; eye d% to 51/5, 2 to Si/g in snout, 21/3 to 21/3 

 in interorbital, ellipsoid ; supraorbital ridges moderately high, robust, 

 extend beliind eye 1% to I14 eye diameters ; dentary width 2% to 4 in 

 head, mouth narrow; labial groove at mouth angle deep on lower 

 jaw and with groove obliquely back in extent little less than groove 

 in lower jaw or nearly equals space across mandibular symphysis; 

 teeth anteriorly in jaws tricuspid, cusps all strong with median largest 

 and last series large swollen molars; in young anterior teeth triden- 

 tate with median cusps largest, posteriorly teeth carinate, none as 

 molars; nostrils level with front of upper dental plate; front nasal 

 valve folded in nearly equilateral triangle, wide as intemarial and 

 hind valve forms rounded broad edge external of nostril; nasoral 

 groove deep ; interorbital 1% to 2^5, broadly concave. Gill openings 

 with first largest, twice fifth and all but first above pectoral. Spi- 

 racle small, barely % of pupil, close below and just before level of 

 hind eye edge. 



