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CHIMAERA WAITEI (Fowler) 



Eydrolagus waitei Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1908, p. 419, fig. 1 

 (type locality: Victoria, Australia). 



Chimaera waitei Gasman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, p. 91, 1911 (com- 

 piled). 



Depth 5% in total; head about 5, width 2%. Snout 1% in head, 

 obtusely convex; eye 6^/4 j 3 in snout; mouth before eye, width 3 in 

 head ; above 2 small flat triangular mouth plates and below 2 trench- 

 ant strong plates ; interorbital 3% in head. 



Lateral line straight along side of body axially; jugular section 

 meets postorbital near junction of latter with angular and subor- 

 bital branches. 



Dorsal spine slightly larger than head, front edge sharply trench- 

 ant, hind edges with about 30 serrae, apparently not connected with 

 second dorsal ; second dorsal uniformly low, length about 2% in total 

 length; supracaudal little higher than anal and about as long; no 

 anal; pectoral reaches middle of ventral base, 5% in total length, 

 width 1% its length; ventral 2i^, obtuse. 



Uniform dull brownish. 



Victoria. Apparently only known from the above described ex- 

 ample, now dried and in poor condition. 



A.N.S.P. No. 33119. Victoria, Australia. Mrs. Agnes F. Kenyon. Length, 305 mm. 

 Type. 



Subgenus Hydrolagus Gill 



CHIMAERA COLLIEI Lay and Bennett 



Chimaera colliei Lat and Bennett, Zool. Beechey's Voy., Fishes, p. 71, pi. 23, 

 figs. 1-2, 1839 (type locality: Monterey, Calif .) .—Girard, Kep. Pacific R. K. 

 Surv., Fish, pt. 10, p. 360, 1858 (Puget Sound; Washington).— Dumeril, 

 Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 689, 1885 (compiled). — Gijntheb, Cat. Fishes 

 British Mus., vol. 8, p. 350, 1870 (Esquimault Harbor; Monterey). — Gakman, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, p. 92, 1911 (California and northward). 



Chimaera colliaei Jordan and Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, p. 16, 1881 

 (Monterey, California). — Jordan and Gilbetrt, U. S, Nat. Mus. Bull. 16, 

 p. 55, 1883 (compiled). 



Chimaera collei De:an, Carnegie Inst. Washington, Publ. No. 32, p. 7, pis. 8-11, 

 1906 (Monterey, Calif.). — Soldatov and Lindbeeo, Bull. Pacific Sci. Fisher. 

 Inst, vol. 5, p. 28, 1930 (Far East Seas). 



Hydrolagus colliei Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 331, 1862 (refer- 

 ence). — Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 13, p. 24, 1873 (Alaska). — Jordan 

 and EvERMANN, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, pt. 1, p. 95, 1896 (Monterey to 

 Alaska). — Evermann and Goldsborough, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26 (1906) 

 p. 230, fig. 4, 1907 (Alaska).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1910, p. 603 (Monterey, Alaska). 



Hydrolagus colliei Goode and Bean, Oceanic ichthyol., p. 32, 1895 (compiled). 



Callorhynchus antarcticus (not Linnaeus) Goodb and Bean, Oceanic Ichthyol., 

 pi. 10, fig. 36, 1895 (from Lay and Bennett). 



? Chimaera media Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 40, p. 91, 1911 (locality 

 uncertain). 



