FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 235 

 CENTROPHORUS SCALPRATUS McCulloch 



Centrophorus scalpiatus McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 3, pt. 3, p. 97, 

 pi. 13, figs. 2-7, 1915 (type locality: Victorian coast, in 70-80 fathoms). — 

 FowucR, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 495, 1930 (copied).— 

 Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mas., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 200, 1930 (reference). 



Depth 7 to subcaudal origin; head 4%, width 1%. Snout 3 in 

 head; orbit 3^/25 l^^ ^^ snout, about 2i^ in interorbital ; mouth width 

 1% in head, very slightly arched, with deep groove and short labial 

 folds at each angle; oblique lateral groove extends backward behind 

 spiracle, long as % mouth width; teeth compressed, upper much 

 smaller than lower with symphyseal triangular, erect, edges entire, 

 other more oblique toward sides, lateral cutting edge almost hori- 

 zontal; lower teeth with nearly horizontal cutting edge, margins of 

 cusps serrated; nostrils midway in snout, front nasal flap with 2 

 lobes near outer edge, inner one smaller, hind nasal edge with narrow 

 skinny border and large rounded externo-internal prominence; inter- 

 narial 21^ in preoral length, which 1% in head ; interorbital 1%, low. 

 Gill openings larger and closer backward, last widest or % of orbit, 

 before pectoral. Spiracle large, subtriangular, above and little be- 

 hind orbit. 



Scales small, depressed, pointed posteriorly, upper surface rough 

 with several keels converging towards point. 



First dorsal origin well behind pectoral base, fin length equals 

 head; second dorsal length 21/5, entirely behind depressed ventral; 

 caudal 3% in rest of body, front subcaudal edge 2 in caudal length ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 5 in head; pectoral length ll^, width 

 2^, inner slender pectoral angle reaches half way in first dorsal 

 base ; ventral length 1% in head. 



Gray above and on sides, white beneath. Inner pectoral angles 

 white. Length, 907 mm. (McCulloch.) 



Victoria. The type was a female 870 mm. long. McCulloch says 

 " these specimens agree with C. granulosus^ Schneider, in having the 

 cusps of the lower teeth serrated, and they are possibly identical 

 with that species." 



CENTROPHORUS FOLIACEUS Giinther 



Centrophorus foliaceus Gunthee, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 20, p. 433, 

 1877 (type locality: Off Inosima, Japan) ; Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 22. p. 

 5, pi. 2, fig. A, 1887 (type, from lat. 35° 11' N., long. 139° 28' E., in 125 

 fathoms). — Jordan and Sntdee, Annot Zool. Japon., vol. 3, pp. 41, 129, 1901 

 (Enoshima).— Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 53, 1908 (type: 

 Japan). 



