392 LAJixin.T.. 



1 . Carcharodon rondeletii. 



The Great ]51ue Shark. 



Lamia, Rondel, p. 3U0; Gesner, De Aqnnt. p. 173; Aldrov. p. 383. 



Carcharias verus, Ar/ass. Poiss. Fo/^s. iii. p. 91, tab. F. fig. 3 (teeth). 



Carcharodon lamia, Bonap. Faun. Ital. I'csc. 



■ rondeletii, ^liill. cV Ilente, Phig- p. 70 ; Dum^ril, Elmmohr. 



p. 411 ; Bucage iS' Capvllo, I\iv. Plagiost. p. 13. 



capeusis, tSinith, III. Zuol. S. Afr. Pine. pi. 4. 



? Carcharias atwoodi, Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hid. iii. 1848, 



p. 71.— Cfr. Gill, Pruc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 260. 



The third tooth on each side of the upper jaw is conspicuously 

 smaller than the second and fourth. Teeth \'^ on each side. The 

 second dorsal tin in advance of the anal. 



From the Mediterranean to Australia. 



a. Stuffed, 6| feet long. Cape seas. From the Collection of the 



Zoological Society. 

 b-c. Jaws from specimens 361 feet long. Port Fairey (?), Australia. 

 d. Jaws of a large example. From the Collection of the Zoological 



Society. 



14. ODONTASPIS. 



Odontaspis, Agass. Pois.s. Fuss. iii. p. 87. 



Triglochis, Mull, ii,- Henle, Ma;/. Nat. Hist. 1838, ii. p. 88. 



The first dorsal fin opposite to the space between the pectoral and 

 ventral, without spine ; the second and the anal not much smaller 

 than the first dorsal. No pit at the root of the caudal. Side of the 

 tail without keel. No raemhrana nictitans. Spiracles minute, pore- 

 like, above the angle of the mouth. Mouth crescent-shaped, wide. 

 Teeth large, awl-shaped, with one or two small cusps at the base. 

 Gill-openings of moderate width. 



Temperate and tropical seas. 



1. Odontaspis americanus. 



Squalus americanus, Mitcli. Phil. ^- Lit. Trans. Neiu York, i. p. 483 ; 



Dekay, Netv York Faun. Fish. p. 366; Storer, Bost. Journ. Nat. 



Hist.'lSU, iv. p. 188. 



macrodus, 3Iitc7i. Am. Monthl. Mag. ii. 1818, p. 328. 



? Squalus littoralis, Mitch. I. c. ; or Lesiwur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



i. p. 224; or Dekay, Neiu York Faun. Fish. p. 351. 

 Odontaspis taurus, (RafnesqKe) Miill. .if- Hcnle, p. 73, pi. 30 ; Du- 



meril, Elasmohr. p. 417. 

 americanus, Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Se. Philad. 1861, p. 399; 



Diimeril, I. c. p. 419. 

 Eugomphodus littoralis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1864, p. 260. 



The first tooth of the upper jaw not smaller than the second. One 

 or two small teeth between the third and fourth long tooth on each 

 side of the upper jaw. Long teeth with a single small cusp on each 

 side of the base. The first dorsal very close to the root of the 

 ventral*. 



Atlantic ; southern Pacific. 



* Sometimes noarer, sometimes at a gi-caler disfauce, which diH'ercuee appear? 



