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Family 15. ODONTASPID-ffi. Sand sharks 



Genus 40. ODONTASPIS Agassiz. 



Odontaspis Agassiz, Poiss. Fossiles, III, 1836, 87 (Squalus ferox Risso). 



77. Odontaspis littoralis (Mitchill). Sand shark; Shovehiose shark; Horned 



dogfish; Picked dogfish; Dogfish; Bone-dog; Skittle-dog; Hoe. 

 Atlantic coast between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras; regarded by 



Garman as not separable from Carcharias iaitrus Rafinesqiie of the 



Mediterranean. 

 Squalus americaniis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 



483, New York; not of Shaw. 

 Squalus littoralis and Squalus macrodus Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., II, 



1818, 328, New York. 

 Carcharias griseus Ayres, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist., IV, 1843, 288, Long 



Island. 



Family 16. LAMNIDiS). Mackerel sharks; Man-eaters 



Genus 41. LAMNA Cuvier. Porbeagles. 



Lamna Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. I, 1817, 126 {Squalus cornubicus Gmelin). 

 Lamia Risso, Europ. Merid., Ill, 1826, 123 (Squalus cornubicus Gmelin); 



name preoccupied. 

 Selanonius Fleming, Brit. Anim., 1828, 169 (Selanonius walkeri Fleming = 



Squalus cornubicus Gmelin). 



78. Lamna nasus (Bonnaterre). Porbeagle; Mackerel shark; Salmon shark. 



North Atlantic and North Pacific; abundant in central and southeast 



Alaska. 

 Squalus nasus Bonnaterre, Tableau Encycl., Ichth., 1788, 10, shores of 



Cornwall . 

 Squalus cornubicus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1789, 1497, shores of Cornwall. 

 Squalus pennanti Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, 517, Cornwall; after 



Pennant. 

 Squalus monensis Shaw, Gen. Zool., V, 1804, 350, Anglesea. 

 Selanonius walkeri Fleming, Brit. Anim., 1828, 169, Lochfyne, Argyleshire. 



Genus 42. ISURtJS Rafinesque. 



Isurus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 11 (Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque). 

 Oxyrhina Aga.ssiz, Poiss. Fossiles, III, 1836, 276 (Isurus spallanzani 



Rafinesque = /s»rus oxyrinchus Rafinesque). 

 Isuropsis Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N Y.. VII, 1862, 398, 409 (/. dekayi 



GiU). 



79. Isurus punctatus (Storer). Mackerel shark. 



Atlantic coast of United States; common. 



Lamna punctata Storer, Rept. Fishes Ma.ss., 1839, 185, pi. 3, fig. 2, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



Oxyrhina dsekayi Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. Amer., Suppl. Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 60, after Storer; name misprint for dekayi. 



80. Isurus tigris (.\twoo(l). Mackerel shark; Mackerel porbeagle; Dcntuda. 



Cape Cod to West Indies; not generally common except in the Gulf of 



Mexico. 

 Lamna punctata DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 352, New York; 



not Squalus punctatus Mitchill. 

 Isuropsis dekayi Gill, Ann Lye. Nat. Hi.st. N. Y., VII, 1862, 409; 



after DeKay; not Oxyrhina dekayi Gill, 1861. 

 Carcharias tigris Atwood, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hi.st., XII, 1869, 268, 



Provincetown, Mass. 



81. Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque. Mackerel shark; Pesce tondo; Cane de 



7/1 a re. 

 Mediterranean Sea and neighboring parts of the Atlantic; occasional on 



the Atlantic coa.st of America. 

 Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 12, Palermo. 

 Isurus spallanzani Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 60, Sicily; after Spallanzani. 

 Oxyrhina gomphodon Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 68, Atlantic 



Ocean. 

 Squalus rosiratus Macri, Mem. Ac. Sci. Napoli, I, 1819, 55, Tab. 1, fig. 2, 



Naples. 



