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Caroharhinus vulpes Blainvili.e, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1816, p. 121 (name 

 only). 



Alopias inilpes INIuller and Henle, Sysf. Besclir. Plagiostomen, p. 74, pi. 35, 

 fig. 1, 1841 (teeth) (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope). — 

 DuMfiRiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 421, 1865 (Atlantic, Cape of Good 

 Hope).— GuNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 393, 1870 (English 

 coast; Cape Seas).— Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., p. 810, 1888 (Ceylon).— 

 Ogilby. Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 1772, 1888 (Port 

 Jackson.— Boui^NGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 243 (Muscat). — Day, 

 Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 28, fig. 9, 1889.— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. 

 Madagascar, Poiss., p. 511, 1891 (reference). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. 

 Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 127, 1901 (Tokyo; Nagasaki). — Jordan and Snydeb, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 939, 1904 (Honolulu).— Jordan and Eveb- 

 MANN, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., vol. 23 (1903), pt. 1, 42, fig. 4, 1905 (Hono- 

 lulu). — Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 232, 1908. — GiJNTHER, Jour. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 483, 1910 (compiled).— Zugm a yer, Abh. Kon. Bayer. Akad. 

 Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 2G, p. 8, 1913 (Oman). — Thompson, Marine 

 Biol. Rep. South Africa. No. 2, p. 147, 1914 (Natal).— W. B. Allen, Science, 

 vol. 58, p. 31, 1923 (behavior). 



Alopeciens vulpes Guichenot, Notes ile Reunion, vol. 2, p. 30, 18G2 (error). 



Alopecias vulpes Hector, Colonial Mus. Governm. Sui'v. Dept. (Fishes New 

 Zealand), p. 78, 1872 (Blind Bay). — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 5, p. 96, 1880 (Port Jackson). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 6, p. 359, 1881 (Port Jackson).— McCoy, Prodromus Zool. 

 Victoria, vol. 1, dec. 9, pi. 88, 1884 (part).— Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 

 new ser., vol. 2, p. 43, 1890 (Queensclifi;). 



Alopias macrourua Rafinesque, Cavatteri animali piante Sicilia, p. 12, 1810 

 (type locality: Sicily). 



Squahis alopecias Gray, Cat. Fish Gronow, p. 7, 1854 (type locality: Atlantic; 

 Mediterranean). 



Alopecias harrae Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, vol. 71 p. 553, pi. 5, fig. 2, 1887 

 (type locality: Valparals<\ Chile). 



Alopecias longimana Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, vol. 109, p. 308, 1901 (type 

 locality: Talcahuano Bay, Chile). 



Vulpecula marina Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 30, pi. 7, fig. 42, 

 1913 (type locality: Massachusetts Bay). — Tanaka, Jap. Pish. Life Colours, 

 no. 15, 1933. 



lAlopias profundus Nakamura, Mem. Fac. Sci. Taihoku Imp. Univ., vol. 14, 

 Zool. 4, p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1935 (type locality: Formosa) (fetus). 



t Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, op. cit., p. 3, pi. 1, fig. 2 (type locality: Formosa) 

 (fetus). 



Depth 4 to subcaudal origin; head 414, width l^o- Snout 3% 

 in head; eye 7%, 2 in snout, 4 in interorbital ; mouth width 3, length 

 of gape 11/3 its width; preoral length 3% in head; outer labial fold 

 half gape, inner half length of outer ; teeth in 28 to 42 rows, simple, 

 smooth, sharp edged; nostrils small, nearer mouth than snout end; 

 front nasal valve with short lobe near inner edge; interorbital 2% 

 in head, moderately elevated, convex. Gill openings small, last 2 

 closer below and over pectoral base. 



Scales keeled, quindentate. 



