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27. Cephaloscyllium uter (Jordan and Gilbert). Swell shark. 



Alonterey to San Diego; very abundant in Santa Barbara channel. 

 Catulus uter Jordan and Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North 



and Mid. ,Ajiier., 1896, 25; Monterey, San Diego, and Santa Barbara 



Channel. 



Genus 18. APRISTURUS Garman. 



Apristurus Garman, Plagiostomia, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., XXXVI, 

 1913, 96 {Scylliorhitius indicus Brauer). 



28. Apristurus brunneus (Gilbert). 



Gulf of California and northward in deep water; Monterey Bay; Puget 



Sound; Hood Canal. 

 Catulus brunneus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 542, Gulf of 



California. 



29. Apristurus profundorum (Goode and Bean). 



North Atlantic, in deep water. 



Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1896, 17, Gulf 

 Stream. 



Genus 19. PRISTIURUS (Bonaparte) Miiller and Henle. 



Prisiiurus Bonaparte, Prospetto del Systema d'lttiologia Generale, 1831, 



121 {Galeus melanoslomus Rafinesque); name only; defined in Icono- 



graphia della Fauna Italica, 1841 (no paging). 

 Prisiiurus MuUer and Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist., Ill, Jan., 1838, 341 {Galeus 



melanoslomus Rafinesque). 

 Pristidurus Bonaparte, Mem. Soc. Sci. Neufchdtel, II, 1839, 11, variant 



spelling. 



30. Pristiurus xaniurus (Gilbert). 



Pacific coast of southern and Lower California; abundant in deep water. 

 Catulus xaniurus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 540, oflf 

 southern and Lower California in 184 to 684 fathoms. 



31. Pristiurus arae Nichols. 



Off the coast of Florida. 



Pristiurus arx Nichols, Amer. Mus. Novit., No. 256, March 12, 1927, 1, 

 off the coast of Florida. 



Family 9. GINGLYMOSTOMID-ffl. Nurse sharks 



Genus 20. GINGLYMOSTOMA Muller and Henle. 



Ginglymosloma Muller and Henle, Wiegmann's Archiv, I, 1837, 396 



{Squalus cirralus Gmelin). 



32. Qinglymostoma cirratum (Gmelin). Nurse shark; Gala. 



West Indies and the west coast of Mexico; Cape Verde Islands; occasional 



on our South Atlantic coast. 

 Squalus cirralus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1492, 1788, American seas; after 



Broussonet. 

 Squalus punclalus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 134, Cuba; 



after Gata Hispanus of Parra. 

 Squalus punctulatus Bloch and Schneider, loc cit., 549, Cayenne. 

 Squalus argus Bancroft, Zool. Jour., V, 1832, 82, West Indies. 

 Ginglymostoma fulvum Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 342, Habana; young. 

 Ginglymostoma caboverdianus Capello, Jour. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisbon, 



1867, 167, Cape Verde Islands. 



Family 10. PSEUDOTRIAKID^ 



Genus 21. PSEUDOTRIAKIS Capello^. 



Pseudotriakis CapcUo, Jour. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisbon, IV, 1867, 321 

 (Pseudotriakis microdon Capello). 



33. Pseudotriakis microdon Capello. Peixe carago. 



Portugal; Amagansett, Long Island. 



Pseudotriakis microdon Capello, Jour. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisbon, 1868, 

 321, pi. 5, fig. 1, Portugal. 



