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Order E. NOTIDANI. (Diplospondyli) 



Suborder OPISTHARTHRI 



Family 7. HEXANCHID^. Cow sharks 



Genus 14. HEXANCHUS Rafinesque. 



Hexanchus Rafinesque, Caratteri, etc., 1810, 14 (Squalus griseus Bonna- 



terre) . 

 Noiidanus Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 1, 1817, 128 (Squalus griseus L.). 

 Monopterhinus Blainville, Faune Frangaise, 1828, 77 (Squalvs griseus 

 Gmelin). 



22. Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre). Cow shark; Caff a hoia. 



Mediterranean to Scotland; Cuba. 



Squalus griseus Bonnaterre, Ichth. R. 1788, 9; Mediterranean; after 



le griset Bonnaterre. 

 Squalus griseus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1795, 1789; after Broussonet. 



23. Hexanchus corinus Jordan and Gilbert. Shovel-nosed shark. 



Pacific coast of America; Monterey Bay to Puget Sound. 

 Hexanchus corinus Jordan and Gilbert,' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880 

 (December 21), 352, Neah Bay, Wash., and Soquel, Calif. 



Genus 15. NOTORYNCHUS Ayres. 



Notorynchus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1855, 73 (Notorynchus 

 maculatus Ayres). 



24. Notorynchus maculatus ^ Ayres. 



Pacific coast of the United States, from Monterey Bay northward to 



Washinton; common northward, especially in Humboldt and San 



Francisco Bays. 

 Notorynchus maculatus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1855, 72, 



San Francisco Bay. 

 Notorhynchus borealis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XVI, 1864, 150, 



Nisqually, Wash. 



Order F. EUSELACHH 



Suborder GALEI. True sharks 



Family 8. SCYLLIORHINID.ffl. Cat sharks 



Genus 16. SCYLLIORHINUS Blainville. lioussetles. 



Catulus V'almont, Diet. Raisonnee, IV, 1768, 451 (C saxatilis Valmont = 



Squalus stellaris L.); non binominal. 

 Catulus Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 85 (Scyllium capense Smith); 



name preoccupied by Catulus Kniphof, 1759, a genus of insects. 

 Scylliorhinus Blainville, Jour. Phys., 1816, 263 {Squalus canicula L., as 



re.stricted); spelled Scyliorhinus by Garman. 

 Scyllium Cuvier, R^gne Anim., ed. I, 1817, 124 {Squalus canicula L., as 



restricted). 



25. Scylliorhinus retifer (Garman). 



Gulf Stream in deep water; occasionally off South Atlantic coast. 

 Scyllium retiferum Garman, Bull Mus. Comp. Zool., VIII, 1881, 233, off 

 coast of Virginia in deep water. 



26. Scylliorhinus cephalus (Gilbert). 



Gulf of California and southward in deep water. 



Catulus cephalus Gilbert, Proc. *TJ. S. Nat. Mus., XV, 1891, 541, deep 

 water near the Revillagigedo Islands and in the Gulf of California. 



Genus 17. CEPHALOSCYLLIUM Gill. 



Cephaloscyllium Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1861, 407, 412 

 {Scyllium laliceps A. Dum6ril). 



* Regarded by Garman as identical with N. platycephalus (Tenore) of the Mediterranean. 



