FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 191 



Oaleus canis Bonaparte, Icon. Fauna Italica, Pesci, vol. 3, fasc. 8, description, 



pi. 3, 1834 (type locality: Italy).— Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 52, 



1851 (Antarctic Exped., Indian Seas, Cape of Good Hope). — Dum^ril, Hist. 



Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 390, 18G5 (Cape of Good Hope, sea of Indies; not 



coasts of Nevp Holland). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 379, 



1870 (Cape Seas, Indian and Antarctic Oceans). — ? Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 



vol. 1, p. 614, 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). 

 Galcorhinus canis Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 28, pi. 1, 



fig. 3, 1925 (Cape Seas). 

 Oaleus nilssoni Bonaparte, Cat. Metod. Pesci Europei, p. 19, 1846 (type locality: 



Northern Ocean). (No description; on Squalus galeus Bloch.) 

 Qaleus communis Owen, Cat. Osteol., Roy. Coll. Surg. vol. 1, p. 92, 1853. 

 Oaleus Unnei Maim, Goteborgs Bohusl. Fauna, p. 618, 1877 (type locality: 



Goteborg). 

 Oaleus syopterus Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Nat. ]\Ins. Bull. no. 16, p. 871, 1883 



(type locality: San Pedro, Calif.) 

 Oaleus chilensis Ferez, Estudios sobre algunos escualos de la costa de Chile, p. 



3, 1886 (type locality: Chile).— Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, vol. 71, p. 543, 



pi. 4, fig. 2, 1887 (Valparaiso). 

 Oaleus molinae Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, vol. 71, p. 544, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1887 



(type locality: Valparaiso). 



Depth 7 to subcaudal origin; head 4%, width 1%. Snout 2l^ in 

 head; eye 4I/2, 3^/2 in snout; mouth width 2V3 in head, labial folds 

 around mouth angles not extending half way to symphysis and 

 lower shorter; preoral length 214 in head; about 44 rows of upper 

 teeth, mostly tricuspid, outer cusp of each lateral tooth best devel- 

 oped; nostrils rather large, internarial half mouth width, placed at 

 last % in snout; interorbital 21/5, broad, little convex, depressed 

 medially. Gill openings subequal third and fourth largest, last 2 

 over pectoral base. Spiracle small, close behind eye. 



First dorsal origin behind end of pectoral base, jBn closer to pector- 

 als than ventrals, front fin edge 14^^ in head; second dorsal length 

 2%; anal length 214, fin origin slightly behind second dorsal origin; 

 front edge of subcaudal II/2 in head ; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 5; pectoral length II/4, width half its length, which 2i^ to ventral; 

 ventral length 2%; caudal 8^5 in rest of body. 



Gray-brown, below white. Dorsals dusky above, whitish poste- 

 riorly. End of caudal dusky, subcaudal with pale border. Pectoral 

 dusky above, grayish below. 



South Africa, Melanesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. Reported from the 

 Philippines by Elera. Also found in the Eastern Pacific in Cali- 

 fornia, Lower California, Peru and Chile. Widely distributed in 

 the Atlantic. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 605-608. Italy. C. L. Bonaparte collection (No. 254). Length, to 



450 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 582. San Francisco, Calif. U. S. Fish Commission (No. 27190), 



Length, 324 mm. Cotype of Oaleorhinus zyopterus. 



