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66. Carcharias eethalorus Jordan and Gilbert. 



Mazatlan to Panama. 



Carcharias scthalorns .Jordan and Gilbert, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 

 104, Mazatlan; regarded by Garman as inseparable from C. limbatus. 



67. Carcharias natator (Meek and Hildebrand). 



Gulf of Panama. 



Carcharhinus natator Meek and Hildebrand, Marine Fishes of Panama, 



Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool., XV, Pt. I, Dec. 20, 1923, 40, pi. 1, fig. 1, 



Panama City fish market. 



68. Carcharias fronto Jordan and Gilbert. Tiburon. 



Pacific coast of Mexico. 



Carcharias fronto Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 102, 

 ^lazatlan. Regarded by Garman as inseparable from C. milberti. 



Genus 33. HYPOPRION Miiller and Henle.« 



Hypoprion Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 34 {Carcharias macloti 



Miiller and Henle). 

 Hypoprionodon Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1861, 401 {Carcharias 



hemiodon Valenciennes). 



69. Hypoprion brevirostris Poey. 



West Indies, north to Charleston and Pensacola. 



Hypoprion brevirostris Poey, Repertorio, II, 1868, 451, Tab. 4, Cuba. 



70. Hypoprion signatus Poey. 



Cuba. 



Hypoprion signatus Poey, Synop., 1868, 452, Cuba. 



Hypoprion longirostris Poey, Enumeratio, 1876, 199, Cuba. 



Genus 34. PRIONACE » Cantor. 



Galeus Valmont de Bomare, Diet. Raisonnde, I, 1768, 371, "Cagnot bleu, 



Galeus glaucus Valmont"; Latin vernacular. 

 Prionodon MuUer and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 36 {Squalus glaucus L.); 



name preoccupied. 

 Prionace Cantor, Malayan Fishes, 1850, 399, substitute for Prionodon 



{Squalus glaucus Linnaeus). 

 Cynocephalus Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1861, 401 {Squalus 



glaucus L.); after Klein, whose names are not binomial. 



71. Prionace glauca (Linnseus). Great blue shark. 



A large shark of the warm seas, occasionally taken on our coasts, both 



Atlantic and Pacific. 

 Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 235, Seas of Europe. 

 Squalus cseruleus Blainville, Faune Frangaise, 1828, 91, Mediterranean. 

 Squalus hirundinaceus Valenciennes, in Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 



1838, 37, Brazil. 



Family 12. SPHYRNID.ffi. Hararaer-headed sharks 



Genus 35. RENICEFS Gill. 



Reniceps Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1862, 403 {Squalus Hburo 

 Linnseus). 



72. Reniceps tiburo (Linnaeus). Shovelhead shark; Bonnelhead shark. 



Atlantic Ocean, abundant from Long Island southward; Pacific Ocean 



ranging from Mazatlan and Bay of Panama to China. 

 Squalus tiburo Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 234, America. 



Genus 36. PLATYSQUALUS Swainson. 



Platysqualus Swainson, Class. Anim., II, 1839, 318 {Zygxna tudes Cuvier, 

 in Valenciennes); misnamed Zygxna tiburo. 



' MOUer and Henle's Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen was published from 1838 to 1841. 

 Oarraan, probably correctly, gives this and other genera of sharks the date of 1841. Some of them appeared 

 earlier in periodicals. 



• The rea-sons for not accepting the names of Valmont de Bomare in scientific nomenclature are given by 

 Jordan and E vermann, Genera of Fishes, I, p. 27. These names (GalevJi, Vulprcnla, Catuivs, and MuntelxLt) 

 ere binomial only by accident, and not accepted by the author himself aa generic in his list of genera (1791) 

 These are, however, accepted by Garman (Plagiostomia, 1913). 



