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Squalus albomaculatus Plucar, Fisch Platz zu Triest., p. 7, 1846 (type locality: 



Trieste). 

 Mustelus vulgaris (not Cloquet) Bleekeb, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, voL 



21, p. 57, 1860 (Cape of Good Hope). — Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. 



Wien, vol. 21, p. 668, 1871 (Massaua). 

 Squalus edentuJus (Chiereghini) Dodeirlein, Manual ittiologico del Mediter- 



raneo, pt. 2, p. 30, 1881 (type locality: Venice). (Reference in synonymy). 



Depth 61/2 to 7 to subcaudal origin; head 4% to 5, width ll^ to 

 11/^. Snout 2% to 21/^ in head; eye 4 to 6, 2 to 21^4 in snout, 2% in 

 interorbital ; mouth width 1% to 2 in head, length % its width, 

 labial folds nearly half jaw length, upper little longer; teeth smooth, 

 small, crowns convex; nostrils midway in preoral or little nearer 

 mouth, front valve with rather extended rounded lobe, internarial 

 2 to 214 hi preoral length; interorbital 2 in head, low. Last gill 

 opening over pectoral base. 



Scales very minute. 



First dorsal origin close behind pectoral base or well before inner 

 hind pectoral angle, front fin edge 1 to 1% in head; front second 

 dorsal edge li/o to 1%; front anal edge 2^4 to 3, origin opposite 

 middle of second dorsal base ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4% to 5 

 in head; pectoral 1 to 1%, width l^^ to 1% its length; ventral length 

 11/^ to 1% ; caudal 3% to 3% in rest of body, front subcaudal edge 

 21/8 to 23/5 in head. 



Gray above, paler to whitish below. Along upper half of body 

 or above lateral line numerous and variable white spots. Fins all 

 more or less with whitish borders. 



Eastern Atlantic, South Africa, Ked Sea. Although Barnard 

 places Mustehis vulgaris^ as figured by Miiller and Henle, with 

 Mustelus canis, its advanced first dorsal and bhmt teeth show it is 

 surely closer to the present species. 



4 young, A.N.S.P. Cape waters. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 140 to 150 mm. 

 MUSTELUS PUNCTULATUS Risso 



Mustelus ptmctulatus Risso, Hist. Nat. Europe m^rid., Poissons, vol. 3, p. 128, 



1926 (type locality: Nice). — Muixeb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, 



p. 190, 1841. 

 OaleorMnus punctufatus Gasman, Mem. Mus., Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 173, 1913 



(Nice). 

 Mustelus megalopterus Andrew Smith, 111. zool. South Africa, Fishes, pi. 2, 



1849 (type locality: Capetown). — Gbay, List fish British Museum, p. 58, 



1851 (reference), 

 Mustelus vulgaris (not Cloquet) Gkay, List fish British Museum, p. 56, 1851 



(Cape Seas). — Gilchrist, Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa, Spec. Rep. 



No. 2, pt. 3, p. 47, 1922 (off Natal, in 150 fathoms). 

 Mustelus laevis Gxjnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 385 (Cape of Good 



Hope), p. 386, l'S70 (footnote of Mustelus natalcnsis). — Klunzinger, Verb. 



zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 668, 1871 (Red Sea).— Hilgendorf, Symbol. 



