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Boreogaleus Gnx, Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, pp. 402, 411, 1862. 

 (Type, Squalus arcticus Faber, orthotypic.) 



Body robust, elongated. Head depressed. Snout wide, short. 

 Eye moderate, with nictitating fold. Mouth crescentic, large, 

 labial folds on both jaws. Teeth alike in two jaws, oblique, 

 subtriangular, compressed, more flattened on outer side and swollen 

 on inner, edges coarsely serrated and edges of denticles serrated, 

 outer edge deeply notched and convex on inner. Spiracle present, 

 small, behind eye. First dorsal above space between pectorals and 

 ventrals; second dorsal above anal. Caudal elongate, with double 

 notch. Caudal pit basally above and below. 



Tropical seas, ranging 70° or more from the Equator. Species 

 few, large sharks with bars and stripes when young, uniform with 

 age. Many fossils known from the Cretaceous and later. 



GALEOCERDO CUVIER (Lesueur) 



&qttahts ctwier (Peron and Lesueur) Lesueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, vol. 2, p. 351, 1822 (type locality: Northwest coast of New Holland). 



Oaleocerdo cuvier Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 199, 

 1934 (reference). 



Squahis articus Faber, Nat. Fische Islands, p. 17, 1829 (type locality: Iceland). 



Oaleocerdo arcticus Muller and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Flagiostomen, p. 60, pi. 

 24, 1841 (Northern Seas, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway). — Gray, List 

 fish British Museum, p. 54, 1851 (North Sea Islands, Faroe, Norway). — 

 DuMERiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 894, 1865 (mers du nord). — 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 377, 1870 (Arctic seas). — 

 Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 148, pi. 43, figs. 6-8, 1913 

 (brain) (tropical and temperate seas to 70° or more from Equator). — 

 Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 78, 1916 (Queensland coast; note). — 

 Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 13, fig. 11, 1921. — Barnard, 

 Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 27, 1925 (Natal coast).— Mo- 

 CuLLOCH and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8. pt. 2, p. 128, 1925 

 (reference). — Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., 26, p. 4, 1925 (Lay- 

 san, Nihoa, Lisiansky, Gardner Islands). — Griffin, Trans. Proc. New Zea- 

 land Inst, vol. 58, p. 137, fig. 1, 1927.— McCulloch, Fishes of New South 

 Wales, ed. 2, p. 6, pi. 1, fig. 11a, 1927. — Phillipps, New Zealand Journ. 

 Sci. Techn., vol. 10, p. 226, fig. 8, 1928 (Bay of Islands).— Fowler, Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 19, fig. 5, 1928 (Honolulu, Laysan, Nihoa ) .—Tirant, 

 Service Oceanogr. peches-Indo Chine, 6^ note, p. 62, 1929 (Cochinchina). — 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 490, 1930 (East 

 Indies, Japan, Hawaii, Atlantic) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, p. 314, 

 1931 (reference). — Cheivey, Inst. Oceanogr. Indochine, 19^ note, p. 6, 1932 

 (Indochina). — Giltay, Mem. Mus. Roy. Nat. Hist. Beige, Hors ser. 5, vol. 3, 

 p. 12, 1933 (Dobo, Aru Island). — Fowxer, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 6, 

 p. 386, 1934 (Ugi record) ; List Fish. Malaya, p. 10, 1938 (reference). 



Oaleus maculatus Ranzani, Nov. Comment. Acad. Sci. Bonon., vol. 1, p. 68, pi. 1, 

 1839 (type locality: Brazil). 



Oaleocerdo tigrhittf! Mijli.ek and Henie, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 59, pi. 23, 

 1841 (type locality: India, Pondioherry). — Gray, List fish British Museum, 

 p. 54, 1851 (Indian Seas). — Bleekeb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), 



