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ScHMKLTz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 28, 1869 (South Africa).— 

 GuNTHEJB, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 418, 1870 (Cape of Good 

 Hope). — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 219, 1872 

 (compiled). — Schmei.tz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, p. 41, 1874 (Cape of 

 Good Hope). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 511, 1891 (ref- 

 erence). 



Depth 6% to 8% to subcaudal origin; head 4% to 514, width ll^ 

 to 1%. Snout 2% to 2% in head ; orbit 4% to 5, 2 to 21/2 in snout, 

 314 to 3% in interorbital ; mouth width 2, slightly arched, with short 

 deep groove and labial folds at each angle ; upper teeth narrower and 

 little more inclined than lower; nostrils nearly midway or at last % 

 in snout, front valve short, longer and with sharp outer angle, 

 oblique, internarial 2% in preoral length which 1% to 1% in head; 

 interorbital 2^/^ to 2%, widely convex. Fifth gill reaches opposite 

 first dorsal in male, little shorter in female; ventral length II/2 to 

 1% in head ; claspers reach below middle of second dorsal. 



Slate gray to brown above. Sometimes 2 rows of white spots on 

 each flank, variable in shape and number, usually pair near front 

 of each dorsal and another behind and lower rows often much elon- 

 gate. Lower surface whitish. Fins with pale edges in young. 



South Africa. Also in Atlantic. Described from Atlantic ma- 

 terial. Length to 915 mm. 



SQUALUS SUCKLEYI (Girard) 



Spinax (Acanthias) sucldcyi Gibaed, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 196, 

 1854 (type locality: Fort Steilacoom, Puget Sound). 



Sgtialus sncklii Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 40, 1901 

 (reference). — Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 46, 1908 (Pacific 

 coast of North America south to California). — Gasman, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 36, p. 194, 1913 (northeast and northwest Pacific). — Fowler, 

 Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 495, 1930 (Formosa, Japan, 

 Hawaii, British Columbia, California). 



Squalus sucMeyi Mori. Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Jinsen, 

 Korea). — Fowleb, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 23, 1928 (Pearl Harbor, 

 Honolulu, Maui); Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 88, 1930 (China); Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, p. 314, 1931 (reference). — Fang and Wang, 

 Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 8, p. 246, fig. 14, 1932 (Chefoo). 



Squalus suckli Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, No. 22, 1933. 



Acanthias vulgaris (not Risso) Muxler and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, 

 p. 83, 1841 ("Sudee"). — Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 

 15, p. 305, pi. 135, 1850 (Bay of Nagasaki ) .—Bleeker, Verb. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 21, 1853 (Nagasaki) ; (Japan), vol. 26, p. 44, 

 1857 (Japan).— GxJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 418, 1870 

 (Cape of Good Hope; not Aastralia). — Nystrom, Bib. Kon. Svensk. Vet. 

 Akad. Handl. Stockholm, vol. 13, No. 4, p. 50, 1887 (Nagasaki).— Ishik aw a 

 and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 61, 1897. 



Squalus mitsulcurii Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 129, 1901 

 (Misaki; no description). — Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 26, p. 629, fig. 3, 1903 (type locality: Misaki and Aomori ) .—Snyder, Bull. 



