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little larger than second dorsal, almost directly below, base longer, 

 posterior edge deeply notched with 2 sharp angles. Caudal nearly 

 4 in total length; lower lobe produced, pointed. Pectoral subfalci- 

 f orm ; outer angles rather sharp, inner blunt rounded ; reaches almost 

 to end of first dorsal base. Ventral small, situated about 3/5 of dis- 

 tance between dorsal bases. Deep pit above caudal peduncle. 



When fresh a bronze brass color " like a new penny," almost pale 

 golden at times. Gray or cream strip along sides from eyes. Creamy 

 white below. 



Length to 9 feet (2,745 mm.). (Stead.) 



New South Wales, Australia. General form rather elegant; body 

 rather more rounded below than in Evlamia hmchyura; snout also 

 rather more flattened both above and below. 



EULAMIA AMBLYRHYNCHOS (Bleeker) 



Carcharia<i (Prionodon) ambliirhynclios Bleeker, Nat. Tijflschr. Nederland. 



Indie, vol. 10, p. 467, 1856 (type locality: Java Sea near Solombo Island) ; 



Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 12, p. 30, 1861 (Singapore).— 



DuMERiL, Hist. Nat Elasmobr., voL 1, p. 304, 1865 (compiled). 

 Carcharias amhlyrhynchits Guxther, Cat. Fisbes Brit. Mus., vol. 8, p. 368, 1870 



(compiled). 

 Carcliarinvs amilyrhynchus Gasman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 128, 



1913 (compiled). 

 Carcharhhius amblyrhimchos Ogilby, Mem. Queensland :Mus., vol. 5, pp. 81, 94, 



1916 (Cape Bowling Green, Queensland). — McCulloch and Whitley, Mem. 



Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt 2, p. 128, 1925 ( reference ) .—Giltay, Mem. 



Mus. Roy. Nat. Hist. Belg., Hors ser. 5, vol. 3, p. 9, fig. 1, 1933 (dentition) 



(Dobo, Aru Island). 

 Eulamda amUyrhynchos Fovvlbr, Proc. 4tb (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., .Java, 



p. 491, 1930 (reference) ; List Fish. Malaya, p. 8. 1938 (reference). 

 Gillisqualus amhlyrhynchoides Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, 



1934, p. 189, fig. 40' (type locality: Cape Bowling Green, Queenf-land ) , p. 198 



(reference), 19.34. 



Depth 7^10 in total length, body elongate, compressed ; head 5, twice 

 wider than deep. Snout pointed; eye 3% ^^ snout, pupil oblong ver- 

 tical ; mouth width less than preoral, much broader than long, lower 

 labial groove little longer than upper; upper teeth triangular, little 

 inclined, all serrated; lower teeth slender, serrated, bases broad; 

 nostrils much nearer snout tip than mouth, short valve triangular. 

 Last gill opening above pectoral. 



Scales very small, with 5 to 7 keels. Lateral line simple. 



First dorsal nearer pectoral than ventral, more than twice lower 

 than body depth, apex acutely rounded; second dorsal 5 times its 

 length from first dorsal, 3 times lower or shorter than first dorsal, 

 longer than high, opposite anal; anal midway between caudal and 

 ventral, higher than second dorsal, but little wider, apex acute; caudal 

 4 in total length, subcaudal oi/io? pectoral little longer than head, 5% 



