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4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 492, 1930 (Indian Ocean) ; List 



Fish. Malaya, p. 8, 1938 (reference). 

 ? Carcharias javanica Van Hasseilt, Algemein, Konst. Letterbode, May 1823, 



p. — (type locality: Java); Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, vol. 2, p. 89, 1824 



(Java). 

 Carcharias (Prionodon) javanicus Bleekek, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), 



vol. 24, pp. 28, 38, pi. 2, fig. 5, 1852 (B'atavia) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. 



Indie, vol. 9, p. 395, 1855 (Pasuruan) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Norland., vol. 1, 



No. 3, p. 10, 1856 (Macassar) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 13, 



p. 58, 1857 (Kajeli, Burn) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. Neerland., vol. 3, No. 6, p. 2, 



1858 (Sinkawang, Borneo). — Dumebu-, Hist. Nat. Elasmobranchs, vol. 1, p. 



369, 1865 (compiled). 



Depth 4% to 6V5 to siibcaudal lobe origin ; head 3% to 4%, width 

 114 to 1%. Snout 2^ to 21^ in head, obtusely rounded as viewed 

 from above; eye 8 to 10, 4l^ to 4I/2 in snout, 5 to 5% in interorbital ; 

 orbital depth 1% to 1% in its length; dentary width 2% to 3 in 

 head, length I14 to 1% in its width, with only very slight or rudi- 

 mentary fold at angle; teeth in 24 or 25 rows in jaws, serrated, upper 

 triangular with attenuated cusps, inner edge slightly undulate to 

 straight and outer deeply notched, all cusps well inclined toward 

 sides of jaws, lower erect with narrow slender cusps on wide bases 

 and edges serrated to tips ; nostrils midway in preoral length, aperture 

 width 3 in internarial front valve as triangular flap; interorbital 

 2 in head, broad, slightly convex. Gill openings equidistant, last 

 shortest and fourth and fifth above pectoral base. 



Scales minute, tridentate to quindentate, with as many keels, finely 

 velvety to touch. 



First dorsal origin opposite hind inner angle of depressed ventral, 

 front edge 1% to I14 in head; second dorsal origin opposite that of 

 anal, front edge 3 to 4% in head; anal subequal with second dorsal, 

 origin little nearer subcaudal than ventral origin, front edge 2% 

 to 34/^ in head ; subcaudal front edge 1% to 1 j^^, 1% to 2 in rest of 

 fin; least depth of caudal peduncle 5 to 5i^ in head; pectoral 1 to 1%, 

 width 1% to 2 in its length ; ventral length 2 to 2% in head ; claspers 

 short, attenuate, not extending back far as hind ventral edges. 



Back gray or fawn color, under surfaces whitish. Fins all more 

 or less with uniform grayish, edges pale or whitish all around on 

 most all. White on side of head extends up till level with upper 

 edge of eye. 



Portuguese East Africa, Arabian Sea, India, Ceylon, Malay Penin- 

 sula, East Indies, Philippines, Indo-China, China. Known by its 

 uniformly pale fins or margined whitish. Its general appearance 

 slender, with rather obtuse snout. 



9319. Cebu market. August 16, 1909. Length, 687 mm. Second dorsal vpith 



hind lobe lost, 

 TJ.S.N.M. No. 64i"i7. Hongkong. William Stimpson. Length, 357 mm. 



