ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA — SCHULTZ 19 



Order LAMNOIDEA 



Suborder Galeoidea 



Family ORECTOLOBIDAE: Nurse Sharks 



Genus NEBRIUS Ruppell 



Nebrivs Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, p. 62, 1835. (Genotype, Nebrius 

 concolor Ruppell.) (Ref. copied.) 



According to Fowler, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 13, p. 67, 1941, 

 Ginglymostoma Miiller and Henle, 1837, is a synonym. 



NEBRIUS CIRRATUS (Gmelin) 



Gata 



Squalus cirratus Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, p. 1492, 1788 (American seas) 



(ref. copied). 

 Ginglymostoma cirratum Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 365, fig. 178, 



1942 (coast of Venezuela). 



Family ISURIDAE: Mackerel Sharks; Tiburones 



Genus LAMNA Cuvier 



Lamna Cuvier, Le regne animal, vol. 2, p. 126, 1817. (Genotype, Lamna 

 cornubica Cuviev= Squalus cornubicus Gmelin.) (Ref. copied.) 



LAMNA NASUS (Bonnaterre) 



Porbeagle; Tibur6n Carite 



Squalus nasus Bonnaterre, Tableau encyclop^dique ichthyologie, p. 10, pi. 85, 

 fig. 350, 1788 (no locality) (ref. copied). 



Isurus nasus Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 366, 1942 (coast of Vene- 

 zuela) . 



Suborder Scyliorhinoidea 

 Family GALEORHINIDAE : Gray Sharks; Tiburones 



Genus SCOLIODON Miiller and Henle 



Scoliodon Muller and Henle, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1837, p. 114. (Geno- 

 type, Carcharias [Scoliodon] laticaudus Muller and Henle.) (Ref. copied.) 



SCOLIODON TERRAE-NOVAE (Richardson) 



Sharp-nosed Shark 



Squalus (Carcharias) terrae-novae Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, vol. 3, 



p. 289, 1836. 

 Carcharias (Scoliodon) terrae-novae Metzelaar, Report on the fishes collected 



by Dr. J. Boeke in the Dutch Vv^est Indies 1904-1905, p. 6, 1919 (Puerto 



Cabello, Venezuela). 



U. S. N. M. No. 127098, 4 small specimens, Gulf of Venezuela, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, December 1924. 



U. S. N. M. No. 123221, a postembryo, 182 mm. in total length. Gulf of Vene- 

 zuela, U. S. S. Niagara, 1925. 



