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89. Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch and Schneider). Sleeper shark; Nurse 



shark. 

 Arctic seas, south to Cape Cod, Oregon, San Francisco Bay, and France. 

 Squalus microcephalus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 135, 



northern seas. 

 Somniosus brevipinna LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, 222, 



Massachusetts. 

 Sqrialus borealis Scoresby, Arct. Reg., I, 1820, 538, pi. 15, Arctic. 

 Squalus norwegianus Blainville, Faune Frangaise, 1828, 61, Norway. 

 Squalus glacialis Faber, Natur der Fische Islands, 1829, 23, Iceland. 



Family 20. ECHINORHINIDiE. Bramble sharks 



Genus 50. ECHINORHINUS Blainville. 



Echinorhinus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1816, 121 (Squalus spinosus 



Gmelin) . 

 Goniodus Agassiz, Poiss. Fossiles, III, 1836, 183 (Squalus spinosus Gmelin). 



90. Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterrc). Bramble shark. 



Atlantic coasts of Europe, America, and Africa; scarce in the western 



Atlantic. 

 Squalus brucus Bonnaterre, Tableau Encycl., Ichth., II, 1788, 1500, 



"the ocean." 

 Squalus spiriosus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1789, 1500, "the ocean." 

 Echinorhinus obesus Smith, Ills. Zool. So. Africa, Fishes, 1845, PI. I, Cape 



of Good Hope. 



Suborder SQUATINOIDEI 



Family 21. SQUATINID.ffi. Angel sharks 



Genus 51. SQUATINA Dumeril. 



Squatina Valmont de Bomare, Diet. Raisonnee, I, 1768, 117; not eligible. 



JRhina Klein, Neuer Schauplatz, II, 1776, 587; non-binominal. 



Squatina Dumeril, Zool. Analyt., 1806, 102 (Squatina angelus Dum6ril = 



Squahis squatina Linnceus). 

 Rhina Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 14 (Squalus squatina L.) 



91. Squatina dumeril '^ LeSueur. Angelfish; Monkfish. 



Atlantic coast of United States; Newport, R. I. 



Squatina dumeril LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I, 1818, 225, pi. 

 10, probably Florida. 



92. Squatina squatina (Linnaeus). Monkfish; Angelfish; Squato; Shark ray; 



Monkcyfish; Kingston; Fiddlefish; Little btdlhend shark. 



Atlantic on both coasts, north to southern England and Cape Cod. 



Squalus squatina Linnanis, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 233, coasts of Europe. 



Squatina Isevis Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. I, 1817, 131; after Linnaeus. 



Squatina vulgaris Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 45, Nice. 



Squatina fimbriata Miiller and Henle, Plagiostomen, 1838, 101, Mediter- 

 ranean Sea. 



Squatina oculata Bonaparte, Faun. Ital., Pesc, XXVIII, 1840, Fasci. 147, 

 pi. 143, Italy. 



Squatina lewis Couch, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XIV., 1825, 90, Cornwall. 



93. Squatina californica Ayrcs. California angel shark. 



Pacific coast of America, from southeastern Alaska southward; not rare 



on coast of California. 

 Squati7ia californica Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 1859, 29, San 



Francisco. 



" As this species has not been distinguished generally from its near relative, Squatina squatina L., it is 

 possible that cdl western Atlantic records belone to it. 



