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Oaleous canis Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 216, 1872 



(Hobsons Bay). 

 Carcharinus cyrdno Whitley, Australian Mus. Mag., vol. 4, pt. 3, p. 93, fig. of 



jaws, 1930 (type locality: New South Wales). 



Depth ? to subcaudal origin; head 3I/2, width 1%. Snout 2 in 

 head, as seen above rather attenuate and end rounded; eye 11, 5i/^ 

 in snout, 5 in interorbital ; dentary width 2% in head, length li^ 

 its width, with long upper labial groove twice length of lower; teeth 

 triangular, edges entire, 38 rows above, 30 below; nostrils at last 

 fourth in preoral space, internarial V/^ in dentary width; front 

 nasal valve with 2 short points; interorbital 2^3 in head, broad, 

 slightly convex. Gill openings equidistant, last 2 above pectoral 

 base and fifth shortest. Spiracle small slit about eye diameter directly 

 behind eye. 



Scales tricarinate, with 3 short points of which median longest. 



First dorsal origin behind end of pectoral base, front edge 1% in 

 head, hind lobe ends in slender point; second dorsal origin slightly 

 before anal origin, front edge 4% ii^ head, hind lobe ends in slender 

 point behind; caudal longer than head, subcaudal lobe half fin 

 length; pectoral width 1% its length, which ll^ in head; ventral 2%. 



Back and upper surfaces gray brown, paler to whitish below. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tas- 

 mania, New Zealand. In describing the Atlantic Galeorhinus galeus 

 Garman says: "End of tail and upper border of dorsal darker," 

 though they are uniform with the rest of the fins in my example of 

 the present species. 



U.S.N.M. No. 39972. Port .Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 1,42<J mm. 

 Head and body skinned out. 



GALEORHINUS Q^ALEUS (Linnaeus) 



Sqvalus galeus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 234, 17.58 (type locality: 

 European Ocean) ; ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 399, 1766.— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloeh, 

 p. 128, 1801 (Atlantic, European, and Pacific Oceans). — Cuvier, Regne ani- 

 mal, vol. 2, p. 128, 1817 (reference). 



Galeorhinus galeus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom.. Paris, vol. 8, p. 121, 1816 

 (name only). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 19, 1928 (compiled) ; 

 Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., .Java, p. 490, 1930 (California; Atlan- 

 tic Ocean) ; Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 70, pt. 1, p. 57, 1936 (Mediter- 

 ranean ; Azores). 



Galena galeus GDnthbr, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 482, 1910 (Europe, 

 California, Cape of Good Hope, Hawaii). 



Eugaleus galeus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 153, 1913 (Mediter- 

 ranean, San Diego, Calif. ) . 



Galeus vulgaris Fleming, British Animals, p. 165, 1828 (British Isles). — Stein- 

 dachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 70, p. 19, 1901 

 (Laysan). 



