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Iiiogomplwdoii ntacidipiiinis Poey, Report Hist. Nat. Cuh:i, vol. 1, pp. 191, 450, 



pi. 4, figs. 3-4, 1866 (type locality: Cuba). 

 Carcharias {Prionodon) miillcrl Steindachner, Sitz, Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



math.-nat. Kl., vol. 56, p. 356, 1867 (type locality: West Indies and 



Surinam). 

 Carclmrias clireuhergi Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 661, 



1871 (type locality: Koseir, Red Sea). — Buusina, Glasnik Naravosl. 



Druztva, vol. 3, p. 234, 1888 (Red Sea). 

 Carcharias ahhrcvidtiis (Ehrenberg) Keunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



vol. 21, p. 661, 1871 (name in synonymy). 

 Gymnorrhinus abbreviatns Hilgendobf, Symbol. Phys. Hempr.-Ebrenberg, p. 8, 



pi. 7, fig. 2, 1899 (type locality: Red Sea). 

 Carcharias aethalonis Jordan and Giij^eet, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 5, p. 104, 



1882 (type locality: Mazatlan, Mexico). 



Depth 51/^ to subcaudal origin; head 3%, width 1%. Snout 2i/s 

 in head ; eye 81^, 3% in snout, 4 in interorbital ; mouth width 2% in 

 head, well arched, length I14 its width, short labial fold at angle, 

 slightly extended forward on each jaw with short groove behind; 

 teeth in 34 rows above, 31 below, bases broad, cusps narrow, upper 

 serrate on bases and somewhat on sides of cusps, lower not serrate 

 on cusps 01" sometimes bases with coarse serrations; upper median 

 teeth small, median lower tooth small and tooth each side little 

 larger; nostrils little smaller than eye, little behind middle in preoral 

 length, internarial 1% in preoral, which slightly wider than mouth 

 angle; interorbital 21/3, rather well elevated, convex. Three median 

 gill openings largest, all equidistant, last smallest and last 2 over 

 pectoral. 



Scales tricarinate, with as many points to each. 



First dorsal origin over or little before inner pectoral angle, front 

 fin edge 1% in head ; of second dorsal 3%, fin length 2% ; front edge 

 of anal 3%, fin length 21/^. origin opposite first % of second dorsal 

 base; least depth of caudal peduncle 5 in head; pectoral 1%, width 

 21^ its length, which 1% to ventral; ventral length 2% iii head; 

 front edge of subcaudal 1% ; caudal 2% in rest of body. 



Brown above, whitish below. Tips of first dorsal, pectoral, and 

 subcaudal black, sometimes also second dorsal and anal. Beaches 

 1,983 mm.. (Garman; Hilgendorf.) 



Red Sea, Arabia, Natal, Seychelles, Cochinchina, Polynesia. Also 

 in the tropical Atlantic. 



EULAMIA BRACHYURA (Giinther) 



Carcharias hrachiniriis Gunther, Cat. Fisbes Britisb Mus., vol. 8, p. 369, 1870 



(type locality: New Zealand). — Hector, Colonial Mus. Governm. Surv. Dep. 



Fi.shes New Zealand, p. 75, 1872 (compiled). — AVaite, Rec. Canterbury 



Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 7, 1907 (reference). 

 Carcharinus hrachyurus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 128, 1913 



(New Zealand; not Australian records). — Phillipps, New Zealand Journ. 



Sci. Tecbn., vol. 6, p. 261, fig. 4, 1924 (Nortb Island). 

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