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Genus 43. CARCHARODON '" Smith. Man-eater sharks: Great white sharks. 

 Carcharodon Andrew Smith, in Miiller and Kenle, Mag. Nat. Hist., II, 

 second article, January, 1838, 37 (Carcharodon capensis Smith = 

 Squalus carcharias Linnteus). 



82. Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus). Man-eater shark; Great white shark. 



Temperate and tropical parts of Atlantic and Pacific; occasionally on our 

 coasts, north to New York and Monterey Bay. A dangerous shark. 



Squalus carcharias Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 235, Europe; after 

 Artedi. 



Carcharias lamia Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 44, after Linnajus; not of 

 Risso and later authors. 



Carcharodon verus Agassiz, Poiss. Fossiles, III, 1838, 91. 



Carcharodon rondeleti Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 70, Mediter- 

 ranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. 



Carcharodon Smith, in Bonaparte, Mem. Soc. Sci. Neufchdtel. II, 1839, 9 

 (errata), New York and Monterey Bay. 



Carcharias atwoodi Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Ill, 1848, 72, 

 Provincetown. 



Carcharodon capensis Smith, Ills. Zool. S. Africa, Pisces, 1849, pi. 4, 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Family 17. CETORHINID.ffi. Basking sharks 



Genus 44. CETORHINUS Blainville. 



Cetorhinus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1810, 169 {Squalus gunneri 



'BlainviUe = Squalus maximus Gunner). 

 Selache Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. I, 1817, 129 (Squalus maximus Gunner). 

 Polyprosopus Couch, Hist. Brit. Fishes, I, 1862, 67 (Squalus rashleighanus 



Couch — Squalus maximus Gunner). 



83. Cetorhinus maximus (Gunner). Basking shark; PSUrin; Elephant shark; 



Bone shark; Sailfish; Sunfish; Hoe-mother; Capidoli or oilfish. 

 Arctic seas, straying southward to Portugal, Virginia, and California. 

 Squalus maximus Gunner, Trondhjem Skrift., Ill, 1765, 33, coast of 



Norway. 

 Squalus gunneri Blainville, Bull. Sci. Philom., 1810, 256; after Gunner. 

 Squalus pelegrinus Blainville, loc. cit., 257, Europe. 

 Squalus homianus Blainville, loc. cit., 257, Europe. 

 Cetorhinus shavianus Blainville, loc. cit., 264, Europe. 

 Squalus isodus Saverino Macri, Mem. della R. Ac. Sci. Napoli, I, 1819, 55, 



pis. 1 and 2, Naples. 

 Squalus elephas LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., II, 1821, 343, New 



Jersey. 

 Squalus rashleighanus Couch, Trans. Linn. Soc, XIV, 1825, 91, Cornwall. 

 Squalus cetaceus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, 1854, 6, Norway. 

 Polyprosopus macer Couch, Hist. Brit. Fishes, I, 1877, 68, England. 



w As to the authorship of the name Carcharodon, we have this information from the late Allan R. Me- 

 Culloch, of the Australian Museum: 



"The name Carcharodon is not used by Smith. The earliest reference to it is that of Miiller and Henle, 

 as Quoted above. These authors saw Smith's specimens (p. 33) and perhaps heard his paper read at the 

 Zoological .Society in September, 1837. They, therefore, quoted the name as of Smith. But Smith's 

 pajjcr was not published until P'ebruary 13, 1838, he having read Miiller and Henle's paper about a month 

 previously, in which Carcharodon appeared, and he evidently withdrew it with names he refers to in his 

 paper." (In lit. June 28, 1920.) 



