PISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 169 



Platypodon gangeticus Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 198, 



1934 (reference). 

 f Squalus carcharias (not Linnaeus) Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, 



p. 4 (361), 1S22 (Ganges River). 

 Carcharias {Prionodon) japonicus Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 



pt. 15, p. 302, pi. 133, 1850 (type locality: Japan ) .—Blee:ker, Verb. Batav. 



Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 2.5, p. 21, 1853 (Japan) ; (Japan), vol. 26, p. 42, 



1857 (Japan). 

 Carcharias japonicus Jobdan and Fowleb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p, 614, 



1903 (Hakodate, Tokyo, Wakanoura, Kawatana, Nagasaki). — Soldatov and 



LiNDBERG, Bull. Pacific Sci. Fisher. Inst., vol. 5, p. 9, 1930 (Far East Seas). 

 Prionace japonica Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 39, 1901 



(Nagasaki). 

 Eulamia japonica Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 590, 1930 



(Tokyo market). 

 Carcharinus japonicus Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 



8, p. 233, fig. 8, 1932 (Tsingtau).— Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, 



vol. 9, p. 92, 1933 (Chusan). 



Depth 6 to subcaudal origin; head 4, width 1%. Snout 2%o in 

 head, bhintly rounded as seen from above; eye 24, 8 in snout, 14 in 

 interorbital ; mouth width 1% in head, length half its width, very 

 short labial fold at angles; preoral length 2l^ in mouth width or 

 4% in head; teeth in 27 to 31 rows, subtriangular, serrated, broad 

 upper ones slightly inclined in front more so toward mouth angles 

 and outer teeth with more indented outer edge; lower erect teeth 

 narrower, bases wide, edges serrated and deeply indented above base 

 with prominence at side of notch in some, median teeth small; nos- 

 trils close below snout edge, about opposite last third in preoral 

 length, front lobe triangular point, internarial 1% in mouth width; 

 interorbital 1% in head, low. Gill openings equidistant, first long- 

 est, last 2 over pectoral and smallest. 



Scales minute, quindentate, each with 3 or 4 keels. 



First dorsal begins opposite last fifth of pectoral base, front fin 

 edge ly^ in head ; front edge of second dorsal 2% ; anal origin slightly 

 behind first dorsal origin, front fin edge ZYs in head; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 4% ; ventral length 2^4, conic or attenuate clasper 3^ 

 to anal; caudal 2% in rest of body, subcaudal II/2 in head or 2% 

 in caudal; pectoral 3% in body to subcaudal origin, width 1% its 

 length which li/4 to ventral. 



Gray brown, paler below. (Miiller and Henle; Garman.) 



Arabia, India, East Indies, China, Indochina, Japan, New South 

 Wales, South Australia, Polynesia, Hawaii. 



EULAMIA LAMIA (Blainville) 



Squalus lamia Blainville, Faune Frangaise, Poissons, p. 88, pi. 22, fig, C, 1820 

 (on Duhamel, Traits g6n6ral des peches, vol. 4 (sect. 9, chapt. 4, art. 1), 

 p. 297, pi. 19, 1769-82, type locality: "Nos mers"). 



