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U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 515, 1904 (Honolulu, off Maui, 267- 



283 fathoms). — Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23 



(1903), p. 45, fig. 6, 1905 (Kailua).— Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23 



(1903), p. 580, 1905 (off Maui, in 267-283 fathoms).— Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 47, 1908 (China, Japan, Hawaii). — Snyder, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 401, 1912 (Mororan, Tomakomai, Misaki). — 



Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 26, p. 471, pi. 130, figs. 368-370, 1917 



(Watanoka, Province Rikuzen).— Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst, vol. 



3, No. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan, Korea).— Fang and Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. 



Sci. Soc. China, vol. 8, p. 248, fig. 15, 1932 ( Chef oo).— Wang, Contr. Biol. 



Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 9, p. 95, 1933 (Chusan; Ningpo ; Chanhai ; Siapu; 



Haimen; Wenchow ; Tenting). 

 Squalus sucklii subsp. mitsukurtl Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. 



U.S.S.R., vol. 11, p. 7, 1931 (Fusan; Nagasaki). 

 Acanthias mitsukurii GuNTHiai, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 490, 1910 



(Japan and Hawaii). 

 Squalus japonicus Ishikawa, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1908, p. 71 



(type locality: Tokyo market, Kagoshima). — Izuka and Matsuura, Cat. 



Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 1S8, 1920 (Tokyo market).— Mori, 



Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan, Korea). 

 Squalus wakiyae Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 27, p. 475, 1918 (on Jordan and 



Fowler). 

 Squalus acanthias (not Linnaeus) Soldatov and Lindberg, Bull. Pac. Sci. 



Fisher, Inst, vol. 5, p. 16, 1930 (Far East Seas). 



Depth 7 to 7% to subcaudal origin; head 4% to 4%, width 1% 

 to 12/3. Snout 21/2 to 2% in head; orbit 32/3 to 4, 1% to 1% in 

 snout, 1% to 2 in interorbital ; mouth width 21/5 to 2i/^ in head, deep 

 groove at each angle, upper labial fold little longer than lower; 

 teeth subequal, inclined laterally, upper little narrower; nostrils at 

 last % or l^ of snout, front valve with short lobe scarcely divided, 

 internarial 21,^5 to 2i/4 in preoral length, which 1% to 1% in head; 

 interorbital 2% to 2%, little elevated, flattened medially. Last gill 

 openings closer, before pectoral. Spiracle about size of pupil close 

 above and behind orbit. 



Scales minute, pedunculate, on back some tricarinate. 



First dorsal origin over inner hind pectoral edge, fin length 1% 

 to 1% in head ; second dorsal origin over or behind ventral ends, fin 

 length 1% to ly^ in head; caudal 3i/^ to 4 in rest of body, front 

 subcaudal edge 2 in caudal length; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 62/3 to 71/2 in head; pectoral 1% to V/g, width I14 to 1% its length, 

 reaching first dorsal origin to % in fin base; ventral length 2 to 2l^ 

 in head. 



Gray above, white beneath. Variably with 1 or 2 pale longitudi- 

 nal bands on front part of side, merging with whitish of lower 

 surface posteriorly. Sometimes scattered whitish spots in 2 rows 

 on front part of body or extending posteriorly. Lobes of fins all 

 more or less blackish, hind angles or edges pale to wliitish. 



