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Body elongate, fusiform, cavity % of total. Tail shorter than 

 body. Snout subconic, end obtusely rounded. Eye large, without 

 nictitating folds. Mouth transverse, with deep straight groove and 

 labial folds at each angle. Villous upper lip before teeth. Upper 

 teeth raptorial, lanceolate; lower sectorial, compressed, serrated on 

 edge, nearly erect in middle of mouth. Nostrils advanced, valve with 

 rounded lobe in inner half. Gill openings narrow, small. Spi- 

 racles wide, transverse, behind eye and little higher, open upward. 

 Scales minute, carinate. Dorsals short, without spine, first before 

 ventrals. No anal. Caudal large, subcaudal deep. 



Jordan and Evermami designated the type of Dalatias Rafinesque 

 as Dalatias Twctumus Rafinesque = ? Gentro'phorus granulosus 

 Schneider '^ as formally restricted by Swainson." This is useless as 

 Jordan, Tanaka, and Snyder had already (1913) given a formal type 

 designation. 



DALATIAS LICHA (Bonnaterre) 



Squalus licJia Bonnateerb, Tableau Encyclop. Ichth., p. 12, 1788 (on La Liche 

 Broussonet, Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, p. 677, 1780, type locality : "Le Cap Breton" 

 in southern France). 



Scymnus (Scymnus) lichia Mulleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 

 P2, 1841 (Nice, Atlantic, Cape Breton, Bayonne). — Dum^kil, Hist. Nat. 

 Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 452, 1S65 (Mediterranean). 



Scymnus lichia Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 425, 1870 (Medi- 

 terranean, Nice, Madeira). — Ishikawa and Matsuuua, Prelim. Cat. Fishes 

 Mus. Tokyo, p. 61, 1897. 



Dalatias lichia Gray, List, fish British Mus., p. 75, 1851 (Madeira). — Izuka and 

 Matsxtura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 188, 1920 (Misaki). 



Dalatias licha Jordan and Fowlek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 637, 1903 

 (Tokyo Museum). — Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 

 497, 1930 (Atlantic). 



Scymnorhimtis lichia Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 54, 1908 

 (Japan). 



Squalus americanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1503, 1789 (on Brous- 

 sonet). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 521, 1792 (copied). — Lacep^de, 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 1, p. 279, pi. 10, fig. 3, 1798 (Cape Breton).— 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 136, 1801 (copied). 



Dalatias americanus Jordan and Snyder, Anuot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 129, 

 1901 (Misaki; Suruga). 



Squalus nicaeensis Ilisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 43, pi. 6, fig. 6, 1810 (tjj)e locality: 

 Nice). 



Dalatias sparophayus Rafinesque, Caratteri animali piaute Sicilia, p. 10, pi. 13, 

 fig. 2, 1810 (type locality: Sicily). 



Depth 714 to 1034 ; head 4% to 514, width 1%. Snout 4 to 43/5 in 

 head; eye 53^ to 6%, ly^ to ly^ in snout, 1% to 1% in interorbital ; 

 mouth width 2% to 3 in head, with deep straight groove, both jaws 

 with long labial folds; teeth in 18 or 19 irregular rows above, 19 



* Genera of Fishes, pt. 1, p. 77, 1917. 

 •Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 1, p. 141, 1838. 



