FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 281 



Squalus tentaculntus Shaw, General Zoology, vol. 5, p. 359, 1804 (type locality: 

 New Holland).— Shaw and Noddeb, Nat. Misc., vol. 15, pi. 630, 1804 

 (Southern Seas). 



Depth 14 to subcaudal origin; head 2i^, width 5. Snout 1^4 ir> 

 head, rostrum armed with 24+26 principal denticles also usually 

 smaller on each side of base of each principal one; barbel 4% in 

 snout; eye 121/^ in head, 9% in snout, 1% in interorbital ; mouth 

 width 8V5 in head; 2 short rudimentary grooves at each mouth 

 angle ; teeth in 36 rows above, 30 below, each with broad low simple 

 cusp ; nostrils at last sixth in preoral length, internarial 1% in mouth 

 width; interorbital Oi/g in head, with slight concavity medianly. 

 Gill openings subequal, last 3 closer). Spiracles large, half eye 

 diameter and close behind eye. 



Scales broad, each ending in slender, acuminate point, with median 

 keel. Dorsals and paired fins scaled. 



First dorsal close behind pectoral, obtuse, front edge 4^4 in head, 

 with blunt hind point ; second dorsal inserted little nearer subcaudal 

 origin than first dorsal origin, similar to first dorsal, front edge 4 

 in head; caudal 2, subcaudal without lobe; pectoral 31/^, width ll^ 

 its length ; ventral 5 in head. 



Gray brown above, paler to whitish below. Along each side of 

 rostral cartilages pale streak, also hind edges of paired fins pale or 

 whitish. 



South Africa, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South 

 Australia, Philippines. Reaches 1,200 mm. 



10170 (D. 5536). Apo Island. S. 26° W., 11.8 miles (lat. 9° 15' 45" N., long. 



123° 22' 00" E.) between Negros and Siquijor. August 19, 1909. Length, 



490 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40003. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59842. Port Jackson. D. G. Stead. 



PRISTIOPHORUS JAPONICUS Gunther 



Pristiophorus japonicus Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 433, 1870 

 (type locality: Japan). — Ishikawa and Matsuuba, Prelim. Cat. Fishes 

 Mus. Tokyo, p. 61, 1897. — Jokdan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, 

 pp. 40, 129, 1901 (Nagasaki). — Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 26, p. 639, 1903 (Aomori; Nagasaki). — Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 

 8, vol. 2, p. 57, 1908 (type; Japan ).^'^Pietschmann, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 117, pt. 1, p. 652, 1908 (Japan).— Garman, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 246, pi. 52, fig. 3, pi. 56, fig. 6, pi. 58, fig. 5, pi. 

 64, fig. 1, 1913 (anatomy) (Yenoura, Japan). — Izuka and Matstjtjra, Cat. 

 Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 188, 1920 (Sagami). — Mori, Journ. 

 Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 (Mokpo, Korea). — Fowler, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 590, 1930 (Tokyo) ; Proc. 4th (1929) 

 Pacific Sci. Congr. Java, p. 497, 1930 (Japan) ; Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 

 129, fig. 13, 1930 (Japan). — Soldatov and Lindberg, Bull. Pacific Sci. Fisher. 

 Inst, vol. 5, p. 18, 1930 (Far East Sea).— Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. 

 Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, p. 10, 1931 (Nagasaki; Fusan).— Fang and 



