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Figure 23 



Genus Eulamia, Requiem Sharks. 



Figure 23. Eulamia falciformis 



Description: This species falls among the division of the genus 

 with a ridge along the back. Among the members of that group, 

 it most nearly resembles floridanus in the very long free rear tips 

 of its second dorsal and anal fins and in its teeth. However, it 

 has a much shorter pectoral (only 2/3 as long as the head) that is, 

 distance from snout to fifth gill opening, a larger eye (its diameter 

 about 1/3 as long as the distance between the nostrils), and a more 

 broadly rounded snout. 



Color: Dark grey above, whitish below. 



Size: Probably does not mature until about 6 feet long. It 

 grows to about 10 feet. 



Habits: It has no common name so far as we know. It is 

 chiefly an offshore species, caught off southern Florida on set lines 

 along the reefs in about 60 feet of water. Nothing further is 

 known of its habits. 



Range: A tropical-subtropical species, known from both sides 

 of the Atlantic. It is evidently widespread in the Caribbean re- 

 gion and has been definitely reported from Trinidad, Haiti, Puerto 

 Rico, Cuba, Bermuda, and from southern Florida where it is com- 

 mon outside the reefs. 



