HKAIIMAUIS SllAllK. 



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SQUALID^. 



THE BEAUMARIS SHARK. 



TAiiumi Miuieiiiis, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 389, npte'2. 



Squulus ,, Beaumaris Shark, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. v. pt. 2, p. 350. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 254, pi. 20. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 501, sp. 190. 



liAUOx CuviER, in his Regne Animal, as above quoted, 

 considers the Monensis of Sliaw and Pennant distinct from 

 the Cornuhicusl^si described, on account of its shorter muz- 

 zle and sliarper teeth ; to this may be added that the eye is 

 much larger, the pectoral and dorsal fins are placed farther 

 back on the body, and the bulk of the fish is gi-eater in pro- 

 portion to its length. The editor of the last edition of Pen- 

 nant's British Zoology, published in 1812, possessing at 

 that time the orifrinal drawing of the Rev. Huijh Davies of 

 Beaumaris, has borne testimony to the correctness of Pen- 

 nant's figure of this fish, which had been questioned ; and the 

 Beaumaris Shark is therefore considered, provisionally, as a 

 distinct species. 



Two specimens, the only examples known, having both 

 nccmrcd on the Anglesey side of the Mcnai, confirm the 



