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Genus ALOPIAS Rafinesque 



Alopias RATiNESQtrE, Caratteri animali piante Sicilia, p. 12, 1810. (Type, 



Alopias macroiirus Rafinesque, monotypic.) 

 Alopius SwAiNsON, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 1, p. 91, 1838. (Type, Alopias 



macrourus Rafinesque.) 

 Vulpeoula Valmont, Diet. Hist. Nat., Paris, vol. 3, p. 740, 1768. (Species non- 

 binomial.) (Type, Squalus viilpes Gmelin.) (Inadmissible.) 

 Alopecias MtJiiEB and Henle, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1837, p. 114. 



(Atypie.) (Type, Alopias macrourus Refinesque.) 

 Carcharhinus Blain\iixe, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, 1816, p. 12. (Type, Squalus 



vulpes Gmelin, designated by Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1907, p. 63.) 

 Carcharorhinus Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool., Index, p. 65, 1846. (TyiDe, Squalus 



vulpes Gmelin.) 

 Carcharinus Geay, List fish British Museum, p. 43, 1851. (Type, Squalus vulpes 



Gmelin, virtually.) (Variant spelling.) 

 Charcharinus Jordan and Stabks, Ann. Carnegie IMus., vol. 2, p. 430, 1917. 



(Type, Squalus wilpes Gmelin.) 



Body robust, slightly compressed. Snout partly conic, short, ob- 

 tuse. Pupil vertical. Mouth large. Teeth compressed, edges entire, 

 bases two-rooted. Nostrils small, nearer mouth than snout tip. 

 Hindmost gill opening above pectorals. Spiracles small, behind eyes. 

 First dorsal large. Second dorsal and anal small. Caudal com- 

 pressed, subcaudal produced. Pectorals falcate. 



One species. This shark feeds on fishes schooling at the surface, 

 which it attacks by swimming around in gradually diminishing cir- 

 cles, lashing the water with its long tail. Stories of its attacks on 

 whales or other large marine animals are evidently untrue. 



ALOPIAS VULPINUS (Bonnaterre) 



Squalus vulpinus Bonnateree, Tableau encyclop. Ichth., p. 9, pi. 85, fig. 349, 1788 

 (tyiie locality: Mediterranean). 



Alopias vulpinus Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 74, 1916 (Moreton 

 Bay).— McCuLLocH, Biol. Res. Endeaxmir, vol. 4, pt. 1, p. 170, 1916 (ofE Cape 

 Everard, Victoria, in 200 fathoms). — Waitb, Rec. South Australian Mus., 

 vol. 2, p. 18, fig. 22, 1921. — Phillipps, New Zealand Journ. Sci. Techn., vol. 

 6, p. 265, fig. 9, 1924 (New Zealand). — Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie 

 Mus., vol. 10, p. 101, 1925 (Misaki, Tokyo, and Osaka markets). — McCul- 

 LocH and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 128, 1925 (refer- 

 ence). — McCuLLOCH, Pishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 8, pi. 2, fig., 1927. — 

 Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst, vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Chinnampo, Ko- 

 rea). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 18, fig. 4, 1928 (Honolulu; 

 Fanning Islands) ; Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 87, 1930 (Hongkong) ; Proc. 

 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 488, 1930 (Hawaii; Atlantic).— 

 Phillipps, New Zealand Journ. Sci. Tech., vol. 13, p. 226, 1932 (Nelson, 

 New Zealand). — Fowler, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 70, pt. 1, p. 43, 

 1936 (New Jersey; Rhode Island). 



Squalus vulpes Gmeun, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1496, 1789 (type locality: 

 Meditf^rranean ; Scotland; Cornwall). — Wai^baum, Artedi Pise, vol. 8, p. 508, 

 1792 (copied). 



